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posted by chromas on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the 23%-budget-cuts dept.

California is officially the first state that will try to require companies like Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to add more women to their boards

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.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:54AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:54AM (#743781)

    Besides, why do you blame the factory owners who are providing a job for a poor family, rather than the dubmfuck poor people who just won't quit making more of themselves?

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:18AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:18AM (#743848) Journal

    Tell you what, how about I pay you $5 an hour to rip you open and play Stairway to Heaven on your intestines (after, of course, stretching them to the appropriate tension on a rack of some sort). Sound like a good deal? If not, why not? Extrapolate this to "jobs" where people are maimed, poisoned, outright killed, or just slowly ground down to nothing and then thrown away like a used tissue, and you may see where I'm coming from.

    Or you may not, in which case the only future for you is reincarnation in several of those jobs. I'm warning you now, karma is an even bigger bitch than me.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:22AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:22AM (#743954)

      This has been tested a few times now. Are people better off being oppressed and slowly killed by factory work, or not?
      The answer is: Yes, they are.
      There are other ways. Better ways. Sadly, in today's world, those ways are not viable or used. They tend to be more expensive.

      There have been a number of cases recently where a factories have collapsed. Yet another 'oppress the poor with poorly paid factory jobs'. Hundreds have been killed. Thousands put out of work. Where do they go? Back to the villages they came from? To other jobs?

      It sucks. It really does. It is awful. Britain had the industrial revolution. America went through the same. Industry builds up, improves, wages rise, conditions improve, and another country starts to bootstrap itself out of agriculture into industry. The world turns.

      Yes, have a bleeding heart. No, we can't change the world or save everyone today.

      We can only hope that tomorrow is just like today, perhaps a little better.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:57PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:57PM (#744152) Journal

        You have such clouded, incomplete vision. I will grant you that, maybe, and this is ONLY a maybe, that sort of industrialized horror is necessary *once* in *one* place in the globe, and this is due more to ignorance about alternatives due to simply not having them in one's worldview than any hard laws of physics. Once it's been seen, it should never happen again, doubly so in a world with today's technology.

        Once one place managed to hit post-scarcity regarding water and power, there is no excuse, ever, for that kind of industrial Hell on earth to exist. I'm trying to be charitable here and assume you simply lack imagination and vision, but a dark part of me suspects you want people--so long as they're not you--to suffer like that for some reason.

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...