I’ll preface this by saying I’m a huge supporter of eliminating discrimination in the workplace and have been part of many efforts to do so. I’m sure the plaintiff and law firm here are suing for all the wrong reasons.

That being said, if there are literal quotas, that’s just a corporation doing the bare minimum to look good. Implementing quotas doesn’t eliminate bias in the hiring, promotion, and firing process.

I know it’s not this easy in all positions, but we’ve already seen that “blind” auditions in orchestras increased the likelihood of women being hired by 11-30%. And there’s no doubt those women were more talented and qualified – they were only judged on their performance. That’s a much better outcome than requiring 30% more women and the biased hiring panel picking women based on looks, age, likelihood to take parental leave, etc.

TL;DR: Quotas are a lazy way to try and fix bias in the hiring process. Work to actually prevent and eliminate the bias.