California lawmakers seek to remove 'he' from state laws
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When California Gov. Gavin Newsom was searching for a new attorney general earlier this year, state Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan looked up the job requirements and made a surprising discovery: In many instances, the law assumed the attorney general is a man.
That will likely change after the state Legislature passed Bauer-Kahan's bill Thursday to update laws governing statewide elected officials with gender-neutral terms. The bill now heads to Newsom, a Democrat, for his review. "We have women serving in our highest offices, and the (sections) of the code referring to them only in the male pronoun was pretty shocking to me," said Bauer-Kahan, a Democrat. "It doesn't represent where California is and where California is going."More Related News