Corporate
Mar. 17, 2020
Gender mandate for corporate boards: a year in review
California’s groundbreaking gender parity law for public company boards has now been in effect for its first full year. While several legal challenges have been mounted against it, the law appears to be having a beneficial impact on a wider movement toward gender and other diversity on corporate boards.
Jen Rubin
Partner
Mintz Levin
Email: jbrubin@mintz.com
Jen is a partner with Mintz practicing employment law. She also advises boards of directors on a variety of employment and gender-related issues and is a co-chair of the San Diego 2020 Women on Boards Leadership Committee.
California's groundbreaking gender parity law for public company boards has now been in effect for its first full year. While several legal challenges have been mounted against it, the law appears to be having a beneficial impact on a wider movement toward gender and other diversity on corporate boards.
Corporation Code Sections 301.3 and 2115.5, which became effective in 2019, mandates that public companies with a principal executi...
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