Deloitte is doing away with employee groups focused on women and minorities, a new diversity approach one scholar says must be accompanied by serious and intelligent discussions.

The New York-based financial advisory firm has the right idea, because employee affinity groups marginalize people, said Christina Hoff Sommers, a gender politics and feminism scholar.

"Companies that promote diversity by offering special programs to women and minorities will be accused of insensitivity to other marginalized groups: trans, physically disabled and neuro-atypicals, to name just a few," said Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

A recent Bloomberg report detailed Deloitte's plans for replacing affinity groups for women and minorities with "inclusion councils" that include people who used to be in different single-identity groups. They also will include white men.

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