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| | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — FactMonster.com |
 | | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. agency created in 1964 to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and to promote programs to make equal employment opportunity a reality. |
 | | The commission receives charges of discrimination, investigates, and if they appear true, attempts to remedy them through conciliation. |
 | | During the Reagan and Bush administrations (1981–93) it was criticized for shifting from blanket to individual complaints, for permitting no retroactive application of the Civil Rights Law of 1991, and for letting thousands of age discrimination cases lapse. |
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