Quotas are mandated minimum numbers requiring adherence.Yes, but you have to track the increase over time. Hence you have a quota: the % target must be greater than last year.
That % target you are aiming for is a quota.
Again, if you want to reduce pay gaps by a certain %, thats a quota.
Why are you hesitant to support quotas? It will achieve your stated goal. Equity and all that shit. Is it because you realize, deep down, how incredibly unfair they are?
Reducing pay gaps, or increasing representation by a certain percentage in a certain number of years, are targets that an organization may or may not meet.
So they are not the same.
PS: I am not against quotas if it would achieve a stated goal (which needs to be studied). I saying that quotas do not exist and are illegal in Canada.