Companies and institutions try very hard to have unbiased hiring, but the fact of the matter is that if you have a female name or an ethnic name, you are less likely to be hired than your white male counterparts, despite identical experience.
Even STEM professors rate a female applicant for a research assistant position as less hireable and less competent compared to an identical male applicant. They even offer the female a lower starting salary on average, and are less willing to want to mentor her.
The problem lies in unconscious bias, and the solution is to blind names on resumes.
The source code for this project can be found at https://github.com/ruthgrace/namelessResume
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