The patriarchy strikes again: California is told it can’t force companies to put women on boards
“The notion that change is going to happen on its own is just pie in the sky,”
New York Times: Meet the State Senator Shifting California’s Workplace Culture
“Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson has been the driver of several new laws aimed at eliminating gender-based barriers.”
Huffington Post: These 11 Women are Blazing New Trails in American Politics
“She’s championed paid family leave, child care programs and stronger responses to sexual assaults on community college campuses. And thanks to Jackson, California now has one of the toughest equal pay laws in the nation.”
Sacramento Bee Op-Ed: California’s economy is failing women. Here’s why we need workplace reform
The pandemic has shown us both how vulnerable and how resilient we are. It has also revealed how much we rely on women, at work and at home, to keep us safe and strong. It’s time we start making it easier, not more difficult, for women to take care of themselves and their families. California women deserve better. Our families deserve better. And frankly, our state’s economic future demands it.
She Community: Women You Should Know
“While Ms. Jackson is a Senator in California, her impact goes beyond California’s borders. California often serves as a leader and a role-model for the rest of the US, where what happens there may create a domino effect in other parts of the country.”
Capitol Weekly: Women Joining California Corporate Boards in Record Numbers
“But instead of pushback, SB 826 has had a powerful impact. Washington State has copied the California law, and 10 other states are considering a mix of California-like diversity quotas, sunshine laws that disclose the number of women on boards, and in one state a resolution that encourages corporations to diversify their boards, according to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.”
Montecito Journal: Santa Barbara’s Wonder Woman
“Her many other accomplishments during 12 years in Sacramento (first as assemblywoman, then senator), as well as those in her final legislative session, are well-known to those who follow her: paid family leave, corporations required to put more women on their boards (both have taken root in other states) and, most recently, the capping of the leaking Becker oil wells in Summerland, which she fought for and passed legislation on – and secured $14 million in funding.”
Santa Barbara Independent: Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson Reflects on a Distinguished Career
“Passionate, substantive, and indefatigable, Jackson in recent years has quietly emerged as a master legislator, author of nationally recognized progressive measures that serve as policy models for other states.”
Los Angeles Times: Keep California’s New Privacy Protections Safe From Tech Company Meddling
“Their efforts haven’t yielded any major changes to the law yet, thanks in no small measure to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) holding the line on the bills coming through her committee. We all should hope the Legislature keeps it that way.”
KEYT: Outgoing State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson: ‘It Has Truly Been an Honor’
“Jackson's most recent list of accomplishments includes helping secure funds to cap oil wells that have leaked for decades off the coast of Summerland. She authored legislation to close the race and gender pay gap, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last month. Jackson was also instrumental in working to protect our communities from wildfires, helped expand job protection for family leave and established new protections for the aging.”
Santa Barbara Independent: Screw Hope. Trust Tenacity.
“Jackson actually makes shit happen — particularly around gender equality. When the Trump administration undermined Title IX, she wrote and passed a law ensuring fair process for students who’ve been sexually assaulted. Eight states are using her Women on Corporate Boards bill as a model for their own laws demanding that public companies add women to their boards. And a whopping 43 states are drafting versions of her California Fair Pay Act, which forces companies to prove that gender isn’t the reason for pay discrepancies.”