Quotas for women – a vital step towards equality or demeaning and patronising?   It is something that I was thinking about last week. Are we doing ourselves a favour when we insist on quotas for women, whether in the workplace, in politics, or in education. In this article from the Independent, Helena Morrissey argues that the impetuous from companies themselves, and the investors are more important than quotas set by governments or the EU. The attitudes of employers need to change, and this will not happen overnight. Recently a friend told me that her boss had remarked that it was good that she was a woman, because they wanted…