- immediately reduces your competitiveness with people outside your legal jurisdiction. (And software engineering can be done anywhere.) - reinforces prejudice

- immediately reduces your competitiveness with people outside your legal jurisdiction. (And software engineering can be done anywhere.) - reinforces prejudice at an everyday level as the group whoa re being quota-ed down resent losing their jobs to people who can't do them. - sends a signal that excellence doesn't matter and that what you are is more important than who you are. In a list of really silly suggestions to reduce prejudice, quotas are the stand-out silliest. We surely want to increase the number of any discriminated-against group because there is a level of untapped excellence in that group; if we get rid of prejudice then we can access that excellence. Quotas go against that idea; you reduce the level of excellence in the field overall, retard development and competitiveness and reinforce the prejudice that you're trying to combat!