Gender quotas in any industry make no sense. Actually lots of time ratio based quota’s make no sense. Like imagine I said 50% of every house must be made of clay because we have lots of clay. It’s a closed argument because I didn’t address how much steel or trees we have or even what “lots” means.
My son loves male teachers, but I am left with the reality that lots of teachers are no male. This is not the end of the world because lots of female teachers are awesome and my son can work with them. There is no need to stomp my feet and say there should be more male teachers by law — that doesn’t fix the problem, that creates a problem because there might be teachers, that are male, that are horrible. The bar would be lowered to let them in. The same effect is what we have on the tech side right now. Don’t ruin tech for the sake of diversity — it literally has nothing to do with it. Machines are independent of people. The machines don’t care what sex we are.