Y'know, back in my day we had a word for this... I think it was "racism" but I'm not entirely sure
California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
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Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#22The comments here as I write this are quite shocking. I would have imagined that HN's readership would be quite progressive. Maybe not. I do not think it is unreasonable for a corporate board to be required to include at least one woman or at least one non-white person. I also think it's quite shocking that all-white-male boards are so common that this is even necessary. It's an artifact of institutional racism and s…
what you are saying is that women and people of color are not capable of competing on merit? they have to be installed by decree? i am insulted.
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#23The comments here as I write this are quite shocking. I would have imagined that HN's readership would be quite progressive. Maybe not. I do not think it is unreasonable for a corporate board to be required to include at least one woman or at least one non-white person. I also think it's quite shocking that all-white-male boards are so common that this is even necessary. It's an artifact of institutional racism and s…
If a board rejects a (very) competent person based on the person’s gender, race, sexuality, age, then… they lost a very competent person. That person will do great work outside of that board. Can we agree on this? Also, is that some sort of Nash equilibrium?
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#24I guess we’ve stopped hiring the best people for the job. Moves like this put the US at a competitive disadvantage.
We can solve our inequality problems without making us weak. The US army took equal opportunity seriously long ago, their model works and can be replicated.
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#25The law doesn’t pass constitutional muster. There are several challenges underway.
I really don't like this pattern that's developing. The pattern that I see is, "Implement an obviously unconstitutional law. Let it affect people in some manner for N months until the courts get around to saying that it's illegal. Repeat indefinitely."
The speed of the courts depends on the political party of the offender, of course. See also: Executive Orders that can be removed and how swiftly they are removed.
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#26The comments here as I write this are quite shocking. I would have imagined that HN's readership would be quite progressive. Maybe not. I do not think it is unreasonable for a corporate board to be required to include at least one woman or at least one non-white person. I also think it's quite shocking that all-white-male boards are so common that this is even necessary. It's an artifact of institutional racism and s…
Why?
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#27Boards with at least 6 members must have at least 3 female board members (from https://www.advocate.com/business/2018/10/01/california-outl...).
My understanding was there is a smaller pool of qualified women to pick from due to career/family balance choices.
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#28What is not a white male? Will this be a self declared sort of thing?
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#29Road the hell is paved with good intentions. As much as I support equality and diversity, I'm even more strongly opposed government over-reach. The state shouldn't have a say in who gets a job at a private (non owned by state) company. As the article state, I hope this will get over-turned by the courts. This would set a bad precedent. If the state can dictate the kind of person gets a highly coveted job, what else c…
Federal government already says you can't discriminate.
They aren't saying, "you have to hire this person". They're saying you can't hire exclusively this type of person that currently dominates the top of society.
Given that these boardrooms don't diversify themselves, what is the actual problem with it?
Re: California outlawed all-white-male boardrooms – reshaping corporate America
#30Road the hell is paved with good intentions. As much as I support equality and diversity, I'm even more strongly opposed government over-reach. The state shouldn't have a say in who gets a job at a private (non owned by state) company. As the article state, I hope this will get over-turned by the courts. This would set a bad precedent. If the state can dictate the kind of person gets a highly coveted job, what else c…
This is about equity, not equality, and it's increasingly clear that a lot of people don't know the difference.
Literally impossible to provide equitable outcomes to all possible segmentations of humans since those segments can be gerrymandered as easily as our geographic definitions used in the past. For instance, the most hyper-modern views of gender vs sex.