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Recruiters in specific industries have long exploited this. In IT and tech there are slideshows for recruiters that used to openly circulate in the 20th century that were like "how to identify a prospective employee with Asperger's and why that's desirable" and there would be bullet points about how people on the spectrum are hard workers who are uncomfortable advocating for themselves and are easy to manipulate.
This is actually a core piece of the shift away from programming as a woman's job into the domain of dudebro sorts, that women had demands for things like "family time" and "bosses who aren't harrassers" and "more money" and the dudes they were replacing them with didn't have those issues.
That this coincided with the Reagan regime and financialization of the tech industry is no coincidence.
we could go on at great length, since we fought against it for years. we have counters to all their damn talking points, all that.
we're pretty sure the company has other priorities now (the business landscape has shifted such that they no longer need to innovate, and in our personal view C-suite are well aware of that and have been acting on it), but we bear witness.
