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title: "California Becomes First State to Require Women on Corporate Boards"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/5fc0b439-60cd-403c-829b-61babaa8dd05
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/california-becomes-first-state-to-require-women-on-corporate-boards-2708025
category: "Regulation"
topics: ["Regulation & legal"]
published: 2018-10-01T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:33:50.449Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/729aa9de129fcfb9a2d43118848a76965263.jpg
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# California Becomes First State to Require Women on Corporate Boards

**TL;DR:** California becomes the first state to require publicly traded companies to have women on their boards of directors. The measure was signed by California governor Jerry Brown on Sunday.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-10-01. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/california-becomes-first-state-to-require-women-on-corporate-boards-2708025).*

## Story

California just became the first state to require publicly traded companies to have women on their boards of directors, according to a Fox Business report.

The measure was signed by California governor Jerry Brown on Sunday and requires the presence of at least one female director on the board of California-based public corporations by the end of 2019, according to the article.

"I don't minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation," Brown wrote in a signing statement, according to the article. "Nevertheless, recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- California (location)
- regulation (topic)
- Fox Business (company)
- corporate governance (topic)
- diversity (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/california-becomes-first-state-to-require-women-on-corporate-boards-2708025). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/5fc0b439-60cd-403c-829b-61babaa8dd05).