The EEOC is a division of the United States Government. It stands for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Among the issues handled by the EEOC are; age, pregnancy, race, sex, religion, retaliation, disability and equal compensation. The following are the laws enforced by the EEOC - Title VII of the Civil Rights Act; Equal Pay Act of 1963; Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Sections 501 and 505; Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; Civil Rights Act of 1991. The EEOC enacted the Age Discrimination act in 1967 although today there are still many people claiming age discrimination. The problem is, it is difficult to prove. Also the Age Discrimination act only pertains to businesses with 20 or more employees and not for small business. The job of the EEOC is to try to reduce and/or eliminate any kind of discriminating behavior in the work place. While it has reduced the practices in some ways, in others, it has not. For over 40 years, new laws have been enacted to help the EEOC combat discrimination. As the years go by, more cases are resolved although there are no reports on how satisfactorily they were resolved.