Affirmative action literally requires quotas to implement. In India they’re more explicitly called out as ‘reservations’, in the US they are based on statistic

Affirmative action literally requires quotas to implement. In India they’re more explicitly called out as ‘reservations’, in the US they are based on statistical models of the population. Once your company gets above a certain size, or if it does business with the gov’t it is required to comply or you’ll get the Department of Labor on your butt and get sued using the evidence that the composition of your employees doesn’t match the model - so you are defacto illegally discriminating. It hit Google pretty hard.