Overview
Law360 quoted Michael Dockterman in an article titled "Could Efforts to Diversify Boards Spark Discrimination Suits?" The article, published February 24, discusses California's new law requiring public companies headquartered in the Golden State to hit diversity benchmarks on their boards of directors and whether such measures could result in an increase in discrimination cases.
However the legal developments shake out, Dockterman says, companies having a diversity of views on its board of directors confers numerous benefits and enhances leaders' ability to understand the "complex set of problems" any given corporation faces, including how it approaches employment discrimination claims brought by workers.
"When everybody on the board looks at things through the same lens, then you're going to have a single beam of light through that lens through which everything is viewed," Dockterman says. "The greater diversity that you have on the board — the broader range of backgrounds [and] broader set of skills that you have — you're going to look at problems in different ways, and that's one of the beauties of having a diverse board."
The full article can be read at Law360 (subscription required).
