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The highly restrictive Texas abortion law has largely gone unopposed from the corporate sector but the Match Group CEO has stood up against it. Sharmishtha Dubey is creating a fund to help the group’s Texas-based employees if they wanted to seek care elsewhere. This is a personal fund, not touching the group’s finances.
Dubey says the law – restricting abortion to the six weeks of pregnancy, which makes it nearly impossible in most cases – is more regressive than laws in most parts of the world including India.
Her stance is an exception since corporate leaders, who have spoken out against some controversial laws like the ones relating to gun control and voting rights, have chosen to remain silent on this issue. The Texas law is becoming a trendsetter among the Republican-ruled states, with strong support from conservatives, while liberals find it at odds with women’s fundamental rights.
“As a Texas resident, I am shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world, including India. Surely everyone should see the danger of this highly punitive and unfair law,” ‘Shar’ Dubey wrote in an email to employees of the group’s online dating sites including Match.com, OKCupid and Tinder.
Though Dubey has kept a low profile, as head of a company worth $37 billion, she is among the top corporate leaders – and one of the few females among them. As the only girl in her class at the famed engineering college, IIT (where Sundar Pichai was among the classmates), she knows exclusion first hand.
She told The New York Times in an interview: “I didn’t think it was the appropriate place for the company to jump in, given we are a very diverse company. ... But when someone came and asked me specifically, what do you think about this as a woman with the life experience that I’ve had, it just didn’t sit right with me to say ‘no comment’ on an issue that I really clearly thought was just wrong. Taking us backward while much of the world is moving forward? That didn’t sit well with me”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/business/shar-dubey-match-texas-abortion-law.htm