And I don't think this can be achieved by accident. There must be intentionality to achieve this.
Just look at this NYT hit piece on Coinbase yesterday and all the data available from big tech like Google and Facebook: https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/13440449092006952...
I'm not endorsing it. I'm just noting that it's happening.
Here's an article that discusses one recent study:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bias-hiring-0504-...
The problem with the original study was that it used names that denoted socio-economic status as much as race (ie, "Dahntay Smith" or "Shaniqua Thomas"). That's a problem, too, but I suspect a similar effect for professional job applicants can be shown using "lower" socio-economic status white names (ie, "Bobby Lee Jones" or "Tommy Ray Brown").
Regardless, I would be strongly in favor of anonymized job applications, since that would eliminate any suggestion of such bias in whichever direction.
Evey beyond names people tend to assign class, gender, and race to surprisingly mundane things that are found on resumes.
I assumed this was fairly typical.
Either way I was responding to "if we took sex and race off... job apps... it would really help."
Edit: btw the thing that annoys me about this is that I already won some tough and prestigious merit scholarships so I actually would have a good shot at these and probably get one if I applied to several. So it's more direct here for me.