Changing society's attitude to traditional female roles is beyond the scope of airlines. All that can reasonably expected is a level playing field which aims to select the best person for the job. Most of us who made it into the airlines worked hard enough for it and would feel put out if we had been knocked back just so an inferior candidate could be employed on the basis of gender or race.
There is a film on NETFLIX called "Hidden Figures" which tells the story of a group of African American women working for NASA back in the 1960s. Attitudes back then were different and discrimination was openly practiced. These ladies battled all the way but were eventually played a vital role in the space program, which shows how wrong it was to discriminate based on their race and gender, talent was being suppressed and had the selection process been fair, they would have been promoted to their level of ability much earlier.
Hanna Reitsch was an very talented test pilot for the Germans back in WW2, it's reasonable to assume that it was because of ability not political correctness that she was flying the newest aircraft.
The Captain on the Southwest Airlines flight which had an uncontained engine failure back in 2018 was female, being an ex Navy pilot she would have been employed on ability and been in the top percentile of all pilots, not just female ones.
If I'm flying as a passenger, I'd like to think that those upfront were employed based on ability rather than to meet a quota.