For most of my career I was a contractor. A side benefit of this was - the big corporations don't get brownie points for hiring a woman, if they hire a female contractor. So you know if that if you got hired, it's because you're good. It takes away that anxiety that women and minorities can feel - that they're explicitly being hired because of their status. A DH - Diversity Hire. And I think much of the time, it's true - they're at least partly hired because of their gender, in IT anyway.

Another benefit of being a contractor - even though I worked in the largest corporations, I never EVER had to take a DEI seminar or anything.

Anyway - especially now that I have boys, seeing all the girls scholarships, girls code camps, etc, really rubs me the wrong way. I think it's blatantly discriminatory. And I think it's actually starting to fade away, at least I hope so. I do think race-based discrimination is still fully in force.

I've often thought that if I need a doctor, I'm maybe going to favor an Asian doctor, because they're actively being discriminated against. The theory is that the Asians have to be better. As opposed to other racial minorities, who have discrimination working for them.