Assuming skill is equally distributed by race.
Except that everywhere, including when admission is solely based on performance on a test you can study for, there end up being massive racial disparities.
Other races need to be shoehorned in.
Except that everywhere, including when admission is solely based on performance on a test you can study for, there end up being massive racial disparities.
Other races need to be shoehorned in.
This has often been called the "old boys club", and the persistent pattern of boards being overwhelmingly white and male is great evidence that there has a (predominately unconscious) bias in the selections.
Since the makeup of these boards affects the decisions made by these companies, and those decisions have a large impact on society, society (California) has decided that they have to clean up their act and make those decision makers at least vaguely reflect the makeup of that society.