In response to Isabell's last post: I disagree with you.

Hi Isabell (and everyone else reading).

I was going to just post a comment on your post but I decided to make it a personal post so everyone can comment and see it. The quota you refer to is called positive discrimination, which is in place and effective in countries, such as the United States.

But what is interesting is you highlight that there is not just a quota to employ women in general to a business, the quota is used to enforce a woman's position on a board as well, which I feel is effective to a certain extent.

I disagree with your point that quotas are completely useless in this regard, as I come from a culture (Nigeria) where women struggle to get to the top. I am not in support of hiring an unqualified woman just because she is a woman that fulfils the quota. However, I am in support of viewing this quota as an opportunity for women who know they are capable of carrying out the job who would never see such an opportunity without a quota.

Yes, your argument holds some weight to some extent but I think you need to look at the bigger picture and take different cultures and their gender struggles into consideration.