This is no different than outlawing all-male marriages.
No, it's completely different.
Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
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#52Fascinating to see all comments against this at the moment. Some level of mandatory female board presence seems to work OK in plenty of places elsewhere in the world without a great backlash. No visible campaigns to repeal because of the great damage or tokenism that's resulted.
This outlaws freedom of association. If I am a woman creating a company for women’s products and want an all woman board, why should that be a problem or any business of the government? If the shareholders don’t like it, they can vote in/out whomever they want. And if an all woman board is okay, then what hypocrisy is this new law?
Hey let's cross that bridge when we get there maybe?
Re: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
#53Honestly surprised at how many people are posting comments about this. You know you'll end up on some list, right? Maybe you think it's ok to debate this kind of measure now, but the line will keep moving. In three years you may have people scouring your internet history for past wrongthink to deny you that promotion, or to get rid of you. In five years, machine learning algorithms may take your comments as input for…
Self censorship is a feature not a bug.
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Re: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
#55Fascinating to see all comments against this at the moment. Some level of mandatory female board presence seems to work OK in plenty of places elsewhere in the world without a great backlash. No visible campaigns to repeal because of the great damage or tokenism that's resulted.
Of these companies how many are competitive with American business?
I forgot how America's man-only board driven companies are the only competitive ones in the world :P Thanks for reminding me?
Re: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
#56Fascinating to see all comments against this at the moment. Some level of mandatory female board presence seems to work OK in plenty of places elsewhere in the world without a great backlash. No visible campaigns to repeal because of the great damage or tokenism that's resulted.
Which are the other places in the world that have done this?
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Re: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
#57Fascinating to see all comments against this at the moment. Some level of mandatory female board presence seems to work OK in plenty of places elsewhere in the world without a great backlash. No visible campaigns to repeal because of the great damage or tokenism that's resulted.
Which are the other places in the world that have done this?
neither pro or against but just googled it and this came up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...
Re: Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards
#58The article seems light on explaining the reasoning behind the law. Its proponents clearly want to increase the average female-male ratio on corporate boards. But that doesn't mean that a few boards being nearly all-male is necessarily bad. There must be a better, less blunt way to encourage companies to open more board seats up to women.
Hasn't happened so far but I'm sure they're taking suggestions. Feel free to raise some, and take it up with your legislature. But at least they're trying something.
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#59This is only going to lead to "We don't have a female, let's just find one and put her there because the law says so." First and hopefully last state, but I'm not optimistic...
No it's not, because board members are important. The conversation, at worst, will be "how can we find the best qualified woman we can to fill the board seat required." They can expand the board to meet this requirement so they won't be unable to hire anyone.
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#60Honestly surprised at how many people are posting comments about this. You know you'll end up on some list, right? Maybe you think it's ok to debate this kind of measure now, but the line will keep moving. In three years you may have people scouring your internet history for past wrongthink to deny you that promotion, or to get rid of you. In five years, machine learning algorithms may take your comments as input for…
This reads to me as "don't say things that leave you on the wrong side of history" - a solid recommendation for life in general.