What happens in universities is that a lot goes on at the lower levels, department by department, discipline by discipline. The Canada research chairs has been a good program to encourage a different way of appointing professors, in particular in new fields, emerging fields, and interdisciplinary fields, where women are prevalent, or are often in those fields—not necessarily prevalent.
I don't know that we need to enforce those quotas completely. I'm still on the fence on some of that. But for sure, if encouraging universities to do it does not work, then something more encouraging needs to be done, or as has been done, to say that you're just not going to get the funding.
The problem, though, still is—