California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law today that requires major companies with headquarters in California — including many household-name tech firms — to have at least one woman on their boards by next year, and depending on the size of the board, up to three women by 2021.
The law is the first of its kind in the U.S., and proponents say it's needed to equalize the representation of women in corporate boardroom. Currently, a quarter of California's publicly traded companies do not have a woman on their boards. Companies that fail to comply with the new rule face fines of $100,000 for a first violation and $300,000 for a second or subsequent violation.
The law already faces opposition from business groups, which could challenge the basis of preferential hiring toward women. In signing the bill, Gov. Brown acknowledged the bill's "potential flaws" that could prove "fatal" to implementation, but nevertheless supported its passing, citing "recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message" around gender equality.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:59PM (3 children)
The group is hardly forcing such an extreme change, but nice try at pushing the right wing fear and panic agenda. You might try instead actually reading the link you posted. The group's goal is to have roughly 50% participation for women in leadership roles by 2050. Not by forcing things, but by identifying areas and reasons why women are not considered for such positions now, and working to eliminate disparities in opportunity so that the discrepancy evolves away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @10:54PM
Can someone please send them Damores homework for the diversity class at Google?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:08AM (1 child)
from the actual link op posted
sorry that facts are right-wing these days
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday October 05 2018, @10:59PM
Where does that say 50% quotas? Quotas are properly used as a temporary measure to bring about a small change at the top, while working from the bottom up to bring about a more natural equal representation.