Don't worry; once the far-right populists have attained total ascendancy in Europe, you won't have to worry about affirmative action ever again.
Seriously though, the one thing that annoys me about this sorta thing is that these quotas encourage people to talk about bloody
corporate board members as if they were a vanguard of egalitarianism in a fight against the forces of social injustice. I mean, come on! The only women who would ever benefit from this policy are already well-off by definition: they are highly educated upper-middle-class professionals who have already made successful careers in the business, and getting on the board would be little more than an added
bonus for them, as it would be for their male colleagues. These women talk about "cutting back" and "spending more time with their families" because they actually have a
choice between climbing further on the corporate ladder and backing down to live the easy life with their stock options and million-dollar Roth IRAs. But when you're a single mom working two jobs to keep your kids alive, "spending more time with your family" is a
luxury you simply can't afford – you
need that third job and you need it
now, and if someone refuses to hire you because "hurr durr wimmin r lazy and shit at errythin' dey do," then we're getting a bit closer to real injustice.