Where does this end?
Do we move to quotas in all levels of business activity, and gov't?
"You must have x% female, you must have x% visible minority, you must have x% indigenous, you must....."??  So much for hiring on the basis of merit.
(BTW, that would mean that there are far too many females in University, we better do something about that.)
Also, can we not recognize that we are making progress for once?
The article claims boards are currently 14% female (which I totally get is too low), but it also states that 26% of new board vacancies are filled by females.  Is that not progress?
I strongly believe that big businesses will do what is best for them.  Research clearly shows that having female input can be a great benefit to the organization (and I do not mean just the optics of it).  When the two top equal candidates are one woman and one man, in today's environment, the woman is going to get the job.