“Any time you try to make significant change to the status quo the powers that have been institutionalized to this kind of discrimination are likely to fight back.”

Former California Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, regarding the legal challenges to the state’s law that requires women on boards of publicly traded companies. When it was enacted, California’s law was the first of its kind in the nation and, since then, several other states have made similar laws of their own. Jackson authored the legislation. (Associated Press — December 1, 2021)