Corporate,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 9, 2021
Judge grills expert on why she says women bring different skills to boards
“I didn’t mean to imply that, Your Honor, that men don’t have them, but without women on the boards, oftentimes those issues get missed. They have the skills. It’s just, where does that discussion go? The studies are showing that the discussion is more robust when there are both genders on a board,” testified Cindy Schipani, a business law professor at the University of Michigan.
LOS ANGELES -- The judge presiding over a bench trial challenging California's law requiring quotas for women on corporate boards grilled the state's expert Wednesday, asking why she believed women brought different discussions to the boardroom than men and whether men could bring similar skills.
The trial challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 826, written by former State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, is underway be...
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