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December 1, 2021

Can California legally require women on corporate boards?

  • Judicial Watch says the law violates the equal protection clause of the California Constitution by mandating a gender-based quota.
    • By BRIAN MELLEY
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — When then-California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the nation's first law requiring women on boards of publicly traded companies, he suggested it might not survive legal challenges.

    Three years later, a judge will begin hearing evidence today in Los Angeles Superior Court that could undo the law credited with giving more women seats in boardrooms traditionally dominated by men. The California law has spurred other states to adopt or consider similar laws.


     
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