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Pregnancy Discrimination Charges FY 2010 - FY 2022

This table shows charge data for pregnancy discrimination. Because allegations of pregnancy discrimination are a subset of other types of discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, these tables have been harmonized with other data on this site and only show charges filed with the EEOC.  For tables from earlier fiscal years showing charges filed both with the EEOC and also with Fair Employment Practice Agency partners, go to Pregnancy Discrimination Charges (EEOC & FEPAs Combined).

  FY
2010
FY
2011
FY
2012
FY
2013
FY
2014
FY
2015
FY
2016
FY
2017
FY
2018
FY
2019
FY
2020
FY
2021
FY
2022
Receipts 4,029 3,983 3,745 3,541 3,400 3,543 3,486 3,174 2,790 2,753 2,698 2,261 2,273
Resolutions 4,130 4,590 4,225 3,580 3,221 3,439 3,762 3,781 3,340 2,996 2,868 2,417 2,104
Resolutions By Type                          
Settlements 522 584 463 436 356 405 393 355 322 313 338 328 265
  12.6% 12.7% 11.0% 12.2% 11.1% 11.8% 10.4% 9.4% 9.6% 10.4% 11.8% 13.6% 12.6%
Withdrawals w/Benefits 253 271 267 233 260 270 298 285 267 294 266 222 215
  6.1% 5.9% 6.3% 6.5% 8.1% 7.9% 7.9% 7.5% 8.0% 9.8% 9.3% 9.2% 10.2%
Administrative Closures 691 709 620 578 585 626 671 654 536 515 574 502 472
  16.7% 15.4% 14.7% 16.1% 18.2% 18.2% 17.8% 17.3% 16.0% 17.2% 20.0% 20.8% 22.4%
No Reasonable Cause 2,484 2,822 2,698 2,154 1,899 1,954 2,259 2,312 2,032 1,736 1,577 1,263 1,077
  60.1% 61.5% 63.9% 60.2% 59.0% 56.8% 60.0% 61.1% 60.8% 57.9% 55.0% 52.3% 51.2%
Reasonable Cause 180 204 177 179 121 184 141 175 183 138 113 102 75
  4.4% 4.4% 4.2% 5.0% 3.8% 5.4% 3.7% 4.6% 5.5% 4.6% 3.9% 4.2% 3.6%
Successful Conciliations 67 89 68 87 53 71 62 77 84 62 57 38 41
  1.6% 1.9% 1.6% 2.4% 1.6% 2.1% 1.6% 2.0% 2.5% 2.1% 2.0% 1.6% 1.9%
Unsuccessful Conciliations 113 115 109 92 68 113 79 98 99 76 56 64 34
  2.7% 2.5% 2.6% 2.6% 2.1% 3.3% 2.1% 2.6% 3.0% 2.5% 2.0% 2.6% 1.6%
Merit Resolutions 955 1,059 907 848 737 859 832 815 772 745 717 652 555
  23.1% 23.1% 21.5% 23.7% 22.9% 25.0% 22.1% 21.6% 23.1% 24.9% 25.0% 27.0% 26.4%
Monetary Benefits (Millions)* $14.7 $13.9 $14.3 $17.0 $14.4 $14.8 $15.5 $15.0 $16.6 $22.4 $15.3 $14.0 $12.0

* Does not include monetary benefits obtained through litigation.

The total of individual percentages may not always sum to 100% due to rounding.

EEOC total workload includes charges carried over from previous fiscal years, new charge receipts and charges transferred to EEOC from Fair Employment Practice Agencies (FEPAs). Resolution of charges each year may therefore exceed receipts for that year because workload being resolved is drawn from a combination of pending, new receipts and FEPA transfer charges rather than from new charges only.

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