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Corporate diversity 2.0 - lessons from Silicon Valley's missteps

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posted on 2024-06-18, 11:44 authored by A Kamalnath
Presently, there is lack of clarity regarding the objectives of board gender diversity laws across jurisdictions. This Article reviews the current laws and regulations for corporate gender diversity across countries and finds two separate problems that current laws address. The first problem is that board effectiveness is hampered by homogeneity and the second problem is the lack of gender equality in the corporate context. However, current gender diversity laws do not address either of these issues individually. Instead, there is a conflation of both these issues, because of which the laws are only able to provide superficial solutions. To appropriately tailor the board gender diversity laws to the two problems, this Article argues a move toward a revised framework, or “corporate diversity 2.0.” Specifically, the Article focuses on the second problem of the lack of “gender equality” and argues that it should be framed more broadly as equality at the workplace rather than merely on the corporate board.

History

Journal

Oregon review of international law

Volume

20

Pagination

113-172

Location

Eugene, Or.

ISSN

1543-9860

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2018, University of Oregon School of Law

Issue

1

Publisher

University of Oregon School of Law

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