Imagine a school club trying to pick new leaders. For a while, they might have had a rule like, “We need at least two girls and two boys on the leadership team.” But now, a big financial company called Goldman Sachs is changing its own rules for picking people for its “board of directors” – think of them as the top leaders of the company, like the student council for a whole school.
On February 17, 2026, news came out that Goldman Sachs plans to stop directly looking at things like a person’s race, gender identity, or sexual orientation when choosing these important board members. Before, they used to consider these as part of making sure their team was diverse.
This change happened after a smaller group, called the National Legal and Policy Center, which owns a small part of Goldman Sachs, suggested that these specific diversity rules might actually cause problems and “raise the risk of discrimination.” It’s like if the school club realized that focusing too much on how many boys or girls they had meant they might miss out on the best leaders overall.
Goldman Sachs agreed to remove these specific references. They’ll still look for people with different ideas, experiences, and backgrounds, which is a type of diversity, but they won’t list certain personal traits as a direct hiring factor anymore. This move reflects a bigger discussion happening in many companies across the U.S. about how they approach diversity in their workplaces.
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