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California becomes first state to require a woman on corporate boards (barf alert)
Mercury News ^ | 9/30/2018 | John Woolfolk

Posted on 10/01/2018 4:50:06 AM PDT by simpson96

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Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4

“I am Governor Jerry Brown, my aura smiles and never frowns...”


21 posted on 10/01/2018 5:21:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: simpson96

Under what authority?


22 posted on 10/01/2018 5:23:38 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: FrankR

“I’d bring in the hispanic, non English-speaking, night maid, give her cookies, tea, and a magazine, and then get on with business.”

Lol, why not require Affirmative Action criteria? Boards must be staffed based upon customer demographics. Race, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identification, disabilities, etc, etc?


23 posted on 10/01/2018 5:26:48 AM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: KosmicKitty

“I guess the gay gene also make you stupid.”

It’s a mental illness, so...


24 posted on 10/01/2018 5:35:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: simpson96

This could get interesting. All a company has to do is create an executive board of all inside members to get around it.

An inside director is a member, who has the interest of major shareholders, officers, and employees in mind, and whose experience within the company adds value. An insider director is not typically compensated for board activity as they are often already a C-level executive, major shareholder, or other stakeholder, such as a union representative.

So if they wish to fill this position for the same or no pay depending on what they are and not who, along with being expected to work their job so they can feed themselves, then the line forms at the door. I suspect when the possibles that can afford it try, they will be into the board based upon their stock share and have little say in the proceedings. Now, wasn’t that an achievement?

rwood


25 posted on 10/01/2018 5:36:07 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: simpson96
Will this cause even more corporations to avoid California? What's next? Legally mandated participation of minorities, gender, sexual preferences, ethnic backgrounds? Lets put in a few former drug addicts and felons while at it! How about making it illegal for anyone who at any point of their life was so much as accused of making a woman feel uncomfortable be banned?

Name one civilization in history that's gone totally insane and survived.

26 posted on 10/01/2018 5:36:51 AM PDT by grania
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To: simpson96

The vast majority of companies, and all the large ones, will already have women on the board. The issue here is the State of California asserting the right to dictate the composition of corporate boards. Once the principle is established, there will be no end to it. And we will march on to Quota America with everything based on left wing identity politics hierarchies.


27 posted on 10/01/2018 5:39:11 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: simpson96

So does it count if a board member “identifies” as a woman? This will all crash down around them.


28 posted on 10/01/2018 5:45:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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Corporations will be more profitable.

I fail to see how that follows. Regardless of what mental gymnastics you perform, it’s not at all logical.

29 posted on 10/01/2018 5:50:39 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: KosmicKitty

Yay California!

Does transgender count?

(A totally serious snark)


30 posted on 10/01/2018 5:55:27 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: simpson96

What about the other 62 genders?


31 posted on 10/01/2018 5:59:41 AM PDT by tje
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To: simpson96

So they’re countering what they see as discrimination with....discrimination.


32 posted on 10/01/2018 6:04:54 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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26 percent of the 445 publicly traded companies in California had no women on their boards

Time for AZ, NV, and Texas to step up their game on their relocation services and ads.


33 posted on 10/01/2018 6:06:40 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: simpson96

In California any man who identifies as a woman is automatically transformed into a woman. So all a corporation needs to do is get a male board member to say he’s a woman.


34 posted on 10/01/2018 6:09:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: FoxInSocks
I fail to see how that follows. Regardless of what mental gymnastics you perform, it’s not at all logical.

If this law will make corporations more profitable, they'd have already been doing it without the law.

35 posted on 10/01/2018 6:10:00 AM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: simpson96

So, now newly appointed women on corporate boards are going to ask themselves whether or not they got the job legitimately or were appointed to meet a quota. Well, okay, those with any insight will ask this, the liberals will just assume they got it because they deserved it.


36 posted on 10/01/2018 6:13:36 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: simpson96
Well, why not a mandatory Eskimo, Transgendered, Illegal Aien or Black Thespian Lesbian Midget?

Crikey I thought the objective was to be INCLUSIVE - those racist, sexist, misogynist bastards!


37 posted on 10/01/2018 6:26:19 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: simpson96

Hire a transsexual, this will piss off the manhaters


38 posted on 10/01/2018 6:26:58 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: simpson96
Reggie Love....

Cher....

Very obese people...

Dogs...cats....Gerbils...

Hey....I mean gerbils have feelings...!!!!

39 posted on 10/01/2018 6:31:01 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: simpson96

Nothing like seeing the local representatives:
<>State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara
<>Congressman Salud Carbajal, D-CA 24th district.

Remember when the big tent republicans tossed the real conservative congressional representative in favor of Michael Huffington (Arianna’s ex)?


40 posted on 10/01/2018 6:34:21 AM PDT by ptsal
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