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How do firms respond to gender quotas? Evidence from California's Senate Bill 826

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  • Gopal, Bhargav

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This study examines the impact of California's SB826, enacted in 2018 and requiring at least one female director on corporate boards by 2019, on financial performance and governance. The quota reduced the share of all-male boards by 24 percentage points without harming financial performance from 2018 to 2021. Governance measures remained stable. Firms responded with both tokenism and meaningful integration, with tokenism more common in larger boards and those in male-dominated industries. I find that SB826 reduced firms' reliance on existing networks, suggesting that network barriers may have previously prevented some qualified women from joining boards.

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  • Gopal, Bhargav, 2025. "How do firms respond to gender quotas? Evidence from California's Senate Bill 826," CLEF Working Paper Series 90, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), University of Waterloo.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:clefwp:327120
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