A second comment: I appreciate your admission that YOU yourself were a Diversity Hire. Affirmative Action-ish kinds of programs def started in the 1980s. I recall when I graduated from McGill in 1988 looking at the jobs board, where companies would advertise jobs for new engineering grads, most of the major companies explicitly stated they were hiring young women only, which meant every girl in the programs (maybe 5-20% depending on the discipline) had automatic jobs. In some sense, this may have worked against them, as when you make life too easy for someone, its dulls their abilities. Those of us who had to work hard to get jobs actually obliquely benefited, as it made us great job searchers, which actually has helped many of us for our entire careers.