This.

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Study shows gender bias is real. Here's why it matters.

Whenever the subject of women in science comes up, there are people fiercely committed to the idea that sexism does not exist. They will point to everything and anything else to explain differences while becoming angry and condescending if you even suggest that discrimination could be a

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[eleryth]

I believe I've come across one somewhere with the names/photo thing.... it was about IDing job applicants and how things like a gender neutral name affected things or how a 'foreign' (i.e. non-English) name affected impression. I never saved it, though I recall reading it somewhere...

[lelola]

IDK if it's the same one, but Phillip Oreopoulos did an experiment he published in 2009 where he replied to online job postings with 6000 resumes -- some with "foreign"-sounding names -- to see what would happen. Here's an article on the study.

(If you're interested, here's the study and its follow-up.)