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A groundbreaking California law to address workplace diversity was overturned. What happens now?

  • A California judge struck down a law mandating corporate diversity, a measure many believed was necessary to increase the numbers of underrepresented people in boardrooms.
  • Experts say companies need to examine recruitment policies, create governance committees and include members of underrepresented communities at the investor level in venture capital.
  • Board membership impacts everything about a company including who raises through the ranks to senior corporate roles, which offer the highest salaries and benefits.

Corporate America has always had a diversity problem. 

What's less clear is how to fix it.

A California judge Friday struck down the first law in the nation mandating diversity on corporate boards, a measure many workplace diversity experts had heralded as transformative and necessary.