Uh, a question of the pipeline?

Corporate boards are mostly filled with 50+ year olds, and in those cohorts, there may be more men than women that fulfill the requirements.

(This is likely to change in the next generation, as women now generally outcompete men in tertiary education, sometimes wildly so.)

It is not too dissimilar from the familiar problem of Californian tech companies: they want some black programmers really badly in order to check some diversity boxes, but the pool of candidates leans heavily Asian.

Because they're required to save almost half the spaces for women, but they don't have to save almost have the spaces for men.

Women will be aggressively recruited to fill the mandatory slots. Not worth looking for men at all, you don't need them unless they happen to be so good it's worth burning a slot on one.

"If you don't think it's necessary, then you clearly have no idea what women go through in the workplace. "

This law is about the top jobs in big corporations, so the people involved are mostly from the top 0,5 per cent of the society. Men or women, they aren't the ones struggling with any real oppression.

The only result is that blatant nepotism is going to be a bit more gender balanced. Probably counts as a progress, if gender is all that counts.

You could also complain about this law because it is sexist. This time for real compared to the shallow allegation that demographic distribution implies prejudice. This has been proven wrong many times, but it still is the justification. The EU ignores evidence in favor of real sexism, that would have been lessened by itself without the EU.

Your argument is circular in unsubstantiated too.

How about wealth inequality? Shoudn't 40 percent of billionares be poor people by law?

You have no idea what poor people have to go through to become a bilionare....

Which has been struck down by the courts as violating the State constitutions. The case is still going through the appeals process, but from what I can tell, it seems like an uphill better for the state to get the law to stand.