California on Sunday became the first state to require corporate boards of directors to include women. “Given all the special privileges that corporations have enjoyed for so long, it’s high time corporate boards include the people who constitute more than half the ‘persons’ in America,” Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in a message when signing the bill into law. It requires any corporation based in California to have a minimum of one woman on its board of directors by the end of 2019. Jackson thanked Brown in a tweet Sunday, writing “yet another glass ceiling is shattered, and women will finally have a seat at the table in corporate board rooms.”

Source: Huffington Post October 01, 2018 00:00 UTC