Judicial
Watch to Court: Gender Quota Requirement for Corporate Boards is Gender
Discrimination
Judicial Watch
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Watch filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on
August 6, 2019, on behalf of three California taxpayers. The 2018 law,
known as Senate Bill 826, requires every publicly held corporation
headquartered in California to have at least one director “who
self-identifies her gender as a woman” on its board of directors by
December 31, 2019. The law requires corporations have up to three such
persons on their boards by December 31, 2021, depending on the size of the
board. The taxpayers challenging the provision claim that the quota
violates the Equal Protection clause of the California Constitution.
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