Shareholder advisory firms and activist investors are ramping up efforts to topple multiclass share structures created during tech company initial public offerings that give founders outsized voting power over other investors.

Critics of the structure say it can leave boards beholden to founders’ whims and make it more difficult to advance such issues as gender diversity. Their quest to sunset the arrangements have gained momentum in part because of last year’s tech stock swoon.

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