Subscriber exclusive: California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom. The move is reshaping corporate America

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Sep. 29, 2021 California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom. The move is reshaping corporate America Hundreds of public companies used to fill their corporate boards exclusively from their networks of familiar faces - typically white men. Then California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom in 2018. The state's requirements that publicly traded corporations diversify their boardrooms were ridiculed as quixotic by conservative columnists and some corporate chieftains. But California is having the last laugh. Women now control more than a quarter of corporate board seats nationwide - 50% more than they did before the 2018 California law requiring women on boards was passed. Read more

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