Last I heard, there wasn't quotas to fill. Some major companies do not have female pilots. That doesn't mean that they won't, it's just they don't. Huge difference. HUGE.
A few years ago, whilst a pilot on a police unit, our boss was tackled by HR. Apparently the unit had no 'minority' personnel and it didn't look good. We needed to positively look at ethnic (no applications) female (ditto) Blind!!, wheelchair and LGBT amongst others. The only posts on the unit were active aircrew.
The answer to this conundrum is simple. Employ the best applicant for the job, forget sex, race and orientation and get the PC brigade to poke off.