California law on company boards spotlights deep challenges

Some of the country's best-known companies, along with

many smaller ones, will have to overcome such obstacles to comply with the new measure, which requires public corporations headquartered in California to have at least one female director on their board by the end of next year.

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Companies with more than six board members would need three female directors by the end of 2021. Those with fewer than six members would need two women.

After years of public and internal pressure to increase gender parity at the top of the corporate ranks, few of the biggest companies have zero female board directors. But men vastly outnumber women on boards across nearly every industry, a landscape that has remained stubbornly unchanged despite years of debate and studies on the subject.

Facebook, Apple and Google's parent company Alphabet are among the several hundred companies headquartered in California that would have to add women to their boards by 2021 to comply with the law.

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