Unsure what to pursue

[Ideas]

I worked in HR for many years, and I don't think this is really true. Yes, they want to get some diversity in the company, but they aren't going to sacrifice experience for that. And, they get as much for getting a minority or woman in as they do for a disabled person - so they're probably going to go for the easiest person to accommodate. So a disabled person with no experience, or a woman (especially in IT) with no experience, I'm willing to bet the pick the woman every time. And if it's in IT, they have LOTS of minorities going for those jobs (Asian, Indian, etc.).

Ok. That's like what TrailRunr said. Yeah, I did think I would need to be "reasonably similar" to the other applicants to have a chance.

But I am female too. And also a minority, so they can increase all three groups with 1 hire. But that's true, there's lots of minorities in IT and probably in many areas of healthcare. The only benefit I have over them, maybe, is if they graduated from a foreign school or aren't quite fluent in English. But, foreign schools might require more learning than we do, especially in IT or certain fields, so maybe it's no advantage?

Edit: I think I have a lot of disadvantages too. One may be lack of GPA (hopefully that's small). They can hire a different female minority who doesn't have disabilities and has great references.