Editing Reverse discrimination (section)

==== Complaints ====
A draft report on claims of reverse discrimination was prepared for the [[United States Department of Labor]] in 1995.{{efn|The report, by [[Rutgers University]] law professor Alfred W. Blumrosen, stated there were at most 100 reverse-discrimination cases among at least 3,000 discrimination opinions by Federal district and appeals courts from 1990 to 1994. National surveys showed only a few{{vague|date=July 2020}} whites had experienced reverse discrimination, and 5 to 12 percent of whites believed that they had been denied a job or promotion because of it. 2% of cases were of white men charging sexual, racial or national origin discrimination and 1.8% were of white women charging racial discrimination.<ref name="Blumrosen 1995">{{cite journal |last=Blumrosen |first=Alfred |title=How the Courts are Handling Reverse Discrimination Claims (Draft Report on Reverse Discrimination) |year=1995 |journal=Daily Labor Report |publisher=Bureau of National Affairs |location=Arlington, Va. |volume=147 |page=D-43 |issn=1522-5968}}</ref>}} Its analysis of employment discrimination cases in federal courts between 1990 and 1994 concluded that between 1 and 3 percent involved claims of reverse discrimination; and that a "high proportion" of the claims were found to be without merit.<ref name="Bendick 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Bendick |first1=Marc |title=Social policy: affirmative action |journal=International Journal of Economic Development |date=2000 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=256–275 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA176368824 |issn=1523-9748 |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422020244/https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA176368824 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Newer reports by the EEOC have found that less than 10% of race-related complaints were filed by whites. When national samples of whites were asked if they personally have experienced the loss of job, promotion, or college admission because of their race, 2%–13% say yes.<ref name="Pincus 2008">{{cite book |last=Pincus |first=Fred L. |chapter=Reverse discrimination |date=2008 |publisher=SAGE Publications |location=Thousands Oaks, Calif. |isbn=978-1-41-292694-2 |editor=Schaefer, Richard T. |title=Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and society, Volume 3 |doi=10.4135/9781412963879.n480 |pages=1159–1161}}</ref>