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"Malala 129"

Hey!

I Am Malala presents a role model for Malala, Benezir Bhutto—she was the first woman to have
lead a Muslim majority nation in a democratic government. Prime Minister of Pakistan. Of
course, this was not exactly well liked by the extremists that had torn the country apart, so it
lead to her unfortunate assassination.

Women in power. It was a reprehensible concept to these terrorists. And as much as we'd like to
think we're the paragons of equality, we're not. Many women find themselves halted in their
careers, hitting a glass ceiling of sorts. In 2018, California and its governer, Jerry Brown, made an
attempt to remedy this in the corporate world. From the San Francisco Chronicle, Rebecca Aydin
writes:

“Brown signed SB826 into law after it passed the Assembly and the Senate last month. The bill
mandates that all publicly traded California companies have at least one woman on their boards
by the end of 2019." (Aydin)

What is SB826? Well if we take a gander over at the California Legislative Information website,
we'll find our answer. [[Screenshot of website]] Senate Bill 826 — An act to add Sections 301.3
and 2115.5 to the Corporations Code, relating to corporations. Alright, so we're adding some
more rules corporations have to follow.

[[Section 2]]

Oh! Ain't that a pretty progressive move. (Read it out loud)

Some legislature to actually force companies to consider the fact that there are actually capable
women in their company.

But how do people feel about this? Well, this Mercury News article written by Julia Prodis Sulek
shows reactions from the liberal and conservative sides!

[[Quote on Screen with picture of Mackenzie]] “Lori Nishiura Mackenzie, executive director of
Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, says passing the legislation is only the start.
How it’s carried out will be just as important.

‘If boards follow this poorly, they may just get a woman to get a woman, and that’s a mistake,’
Mackenzie said. ‘If they do it well, they will look at the barriers that have prevented them from
seeing the amazing women as valuable contributors to their boards.’”(Sulek)

[[Quote on Screen with picture of Dhillon]] “Harmeet Dhillon, a committeewoman for the
Republican National Committee and a San Francisco lawyer, says the legislation is a bad idea —
and she readily offers that she has experienced gender discrimination in her own legal
profession.
‘I agree that it would probably be better for American businesses if they had more diversity on
their boards — women and minorities,” Dhillon said. However, “having the government
mandate that (diversity) is completely ridiculous and counterproductive to how businesses
should be run.’”(Sulek)

Mackenzie brings up the point that corporations may not follow the policy to its fullest potential
as they'll just hire a woman for the sake of having a woman. But having it be fully considered
would not only expand opportunities for women that the rest of the country may follow, but it
would also diversify a board of directors to make decisions that were only possible because of a
woman's influence. Dhillon also makes the valid point that government forcing this on
corporations would inevitably become the "diversify for diversity's sake." It's that same sort of
logic of television shows having token minority characters.

It's been over a year since SB 826 was passed, and I have not seen any chaos ensue ever since,
so I'm pretty sure we're fine. At least, right now. No death has come of it... That's a good thing,
even if a death is honorable, it's still a death.

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I'll leave you with this excerpt from I Am Malala.

"Malala 133"

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