quota
the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
a proportional part or share of a fixed total amount or quantity.
the number or percentage of persons of a specified kind permitted to enroll in a college, join a club, immigrate to a country, etc.
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Norway started the movement in 2003 with a 40% female quota for corporate boards, and since then countries like Spain, Israel, Kenya, Portugal, and Germany have followed suit with their own quotas.
India’s gender quota for boards of directors led to a troubling trend | Claire Zillman | February 9, 2021 | FortuneHis findings encouraged Congress to set quotas to limit the immigration of so-called “inferior” national groups from places like Russia, Poland and Italy.
What you need to know about standardized testing | Valerie Strauss | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostSudan received more people in three weeks from Tigray than the United States is willing to take as its quota of refugees in a year.
Ethiopia’s unfolding humanitarian crisis, explained by a top aid official | Jen Kirby | December 3, 2020 | VoxIf you don’t meet that quota, they’re gonna get you out of there.
What one of Amazon’s biggest critics thinks the future of the retail industry means for workers | Shirin Ghaffary | December 3, 2020 | VoxStill, one of the biggest worries about board quotas—that directorships will go to “token” women who are under-qualified—didn’t materialize.
Will Nasdaq’s board diversity push work? Canada provides some clues | Claire Zillman, reporter | December 2, 2020 | Fortune
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSupported by Washington, the domestic quota was cut from 90 days to 30.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI am fighting that quota because I am an advocate of competition.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut we could not, because, once we had given a fair quota to the left, there was not enough stuff in our lockers for the right.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian HamiltonEvery pantry, turkey-roost, and hog-pen in the dear old State was called upon to furnish its quota for the feast.
Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N.C. Regiment | John A. SloanHis guests were always ready to laugh at his words and add their quota to the sum of vituperation.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) | PolybiusHe had brought with him three hundred Spartans, as the quota furnished by that city.
Xerxes | Jacob AbbottEach salesman is given a monthly quota—based on salary, territory, and previous sales—which he is expected to reach.
British Dictionary definitions for quota
/ (ˈkwəʊtə) /
the proportional share or part of a whole that is due from, due to, or allocated to a person or group
a prescribed number or quantity, as of items to be manufactured, imported, or exported, immigrants admitted to a country, or students admitted to a college
Origin of quota
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