With Gov. Gavin Newsom out of the country, state law requires the lieutenant governor to fill in.
For the first time in California’s 171-year history, a woman has signed a bill into state law.
“It was very humbling. And I did feel that sense of history,” said Kounalakis, who also signed a separate bill relating to elections on Thursday. “For many years women have been writing legislation … but no woman has ever signed a bill into law. And it felt like a moment in history that we should recognize as important.”
“People have these kind of unconscious biases, even against women in the executive position when they are the boss,” said Kim Nalder, professor of political science at Sacramento State. “When they are members of a legislature, they are members of a group. That plays into the positive stereotypes people have about women being good at collaboration.
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