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Today at Ms. | June 2, 2022
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Gender Diversity on California Corporate Boards Was Too Good To Last [[link removed]]
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The “Fearless Girl” statue, a four-foot statue of a young girl, was installed in front of the bronze “Charging Bull” for International Women’s Day in 2017 in NYC to draw attention to the gender pay gap and lack of gender diversity on corporate boards in the financial sector. (Volkan Furuncu / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)
BY MARTHA BURK | California broke new ground for women when Governor Jerry Brown signed the first-in-the-nation requirement that publicly traded companies in the state have at least one woman on their board of directors by the end of 2019, and two or three by the end of 2021. But last month, the law was deemed unconstitutional.
On May 23, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced that she will appeal the California ruling, which will take time and may not be successful. Without formal requirements, we can only hope a growing critical mass of women can change corporate culture that’s still merrily skating along with those unwritten “majority male quotas” that have been firmly in place for centuries.
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This Was Never About Amber Heard [[link removed]]
BY DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER | Wednesday’s verdict in the defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard marks the end of the legal proceedings. But the impact of the case will reverberate. The court of public opinion handed a decisive victory to Depp early on, spotlighting huge cultural blindspots that extend far beyond Heard—whatever you may think of her. Until we reckon with these blindspots, ordinary credibility judgments will be distorted in ways that disadvantage everyday accusers.
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Overturning Roe Would Create More Barriers for Asylum-Seekers and Immigrants [[link removed]]
BY MARY GIOVAGNOLI | Hostile state or federal laws that ban or restrict abortion and criminalize pregnancy outcomes could have yet another devastating impact: threatening eligibility for legal immigration status and undermining efforts to create more equitable and humane immigration laws.
The politics of immigration and the politics of choice will continue to collide as extreme lawmakers cynically trade the reproductive health of immigrant and non-citizen women for political gain.
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