Two wrongs don't make a right. The problem with this kind of discrimination, apart from it being discrimination, is that it has all kinds of side consequences

Two wrongs don't make a right. The problem with this kind of discrimination, apart from it being discrimination, is that it has all kinds of side consequences and it's often applied unidirectionally. When you have a 2 to 1 hiring advantage in STEM that's a huge problem caused by this kind of thinking, yet it's not seen as a problem because women are supposedly the oppressed class. Meanwhile this policy is making it rational to believe that women working in STEM jobs are less qualified, which is a big disservice to the brilliant women who got there on merit. (note that I personally score some victimology points, and I HATE the quotum policies and special grants etc.) Instead we should decide what the situation is that we want to reach and aim directly for that. In my opinion that situation is one where gender does not matter in situations where it doesn't matter and everyone has equal opportunity. The goal should not be a situation where we're enforcing quotas because that's a situation where people are not doing what they want to do. The orchestra is a good example where it did work. They started to use blind evaluations to hire the best players. They didn't implement gender quotas (as far as I know, and if they did I disagree that that's the solution).