It's interesting that when people say "just hire the best person for the job" they really can't get their head around the fact that this is exactly what women and minorities want.  They have such an ingrained idea that only white men can be the best that they just cannot accept that they might be wrong. Blind hiring where only skill and work are evaluated without knowing gender or race, proves this out.  Women and minorities can be the best candidate.  Strangely the people who are against quotas do not seem to care that white male bias often means that the second or third rate candidate gets the job because gender and race are the determining factor.