No, that’s not what that it is saying. It is saying that worse candidates get jobs over better candidates because there is an artificial minority quota that mu

No, that’s not what that it is saying. It is saying that worse candidates get jobs over better candidates because there is an artificial minority quota that must be achieved. I helped fill a PhD position in Germany, it took 6 months to fill, because the first 19 properly qualified candidates were men. The 20th was a women, their qualifications were significantly worse than most men, but she got the job because of the quotas set by the German research foundation. I never helped with filling a position again and this was one of the contributing factors for my decision against staying in academia.