Representation of women

In the past few weeks, maybe months, I've seen various ways on how it is tackled so that things like high business jobs, the judiciary and politics. I'll provide short information on each.

Private Sector Jobs
The EU's Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, said "self-regulation so far has not brought about satisfactory results" for women. She is potentially planning on introducing legislation which would boost women in the high end jobs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17257676

Politics
Labour introduced women only shortlists to some of their constituencies with the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002 allowing the picking of candidates in a political party to be based on gender.

Judiciary
Now as far as I'm aware, there's not much they do outside of promotion. However when the magistrates try someone, they will always make sure that out of the 3 sitting, at least one is a woman.

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Personally, the way they want to introduce women into private sector jobs is appauling and sexist, also restricting what businesses can do as they may not be able to actually pick the best candidate which they should have the right to do. I remember a quote from a women who said they'd rather get the job honestly then because of the company being forced by law.

It's even worse in politics, it's pure sexism and completely unfair (again).

The judiciary (assuming there is nothing making women have a great "equal representation of the population") does a better job, but the forcing of at least one women in a trial isn't justified either.

I dislike this forcing of women into jobs quite simply. I'm interested in what people think of this sort of thing.