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A Seat at the Table: California Mandates Female Board Directors

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By George Avraam on October 1, 2018
Posted in Legislative & Regulatory Changes

Publicly-traded companies headquartered in California will need to have at least one female director on their board by the end of 2019 under a new law in California. Our colleagues in the Golden State, Susan Eandi and Caroline Burnett, provide details on the new law and initiatives in other jurisdictions to address the gender…

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