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So Alphabet will need to add two women (currently 8 board members, 1 woman). Apple, Tesla, and Facebook will need to add 1 (7/2, 9/2 and 9/2 respectively). Uber surprisingly enough already has 3 female board members, so they’re all set. That’s all assuming that this bill sticks of course. I’m sure there’ll be some heavy opposition to it.

I’m a bit surprised Alphabet’s board is one of the more gender imbalanced right now among the giants.

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Alphabet seems to have [1] 11 directors, two of which are women. So they can either (1) hire one more women director, or (2) fire six of the male directors.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/other/board.html

Edit: the law only requires three women directors for board over six in size, not 50% of the board. Corrected.

Ah, you’re right, I was looking at an out of date list of board members.

So they’ll only need to hire 1 additional woman. The bill requires there to be at least three women on boards with six or more members. Not pairity, just 3.

You are correct and I fixed my comment to reflect that.

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