Does there exist any body of proof around this one? Would like to see it and add it to my corpus of knowledge
Other data points are gathered by studying success at finding internships. A recent study found a rather staggering difference - names indicating local ethnicity got a place in 1-2 letters, while some other ethnicities had to write over 20 (if memory serves).
You'll want to find studies for the country you're living in, as the parameters inevitably vary (e.g. which ethnicities to compare). I don't think the outcomes cary much, but i didn't do a comparative study on the literature.
On a more general note the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg is a good read if you're interested in learning about biases you (whether man or woman) might have. The book is thoroughly cited and aims to be productive rather than an attack on men and does a great job in my opinion. It points out certain things such as how certain traits are seen as positive in men and negative in women and how this manifests itself in the workplace. It definitely helped me spot things I was guilty of without even realising before
Also regarding presentation improving the perceived quality of work, I noticed that when I started writing my homework assignments in LaTeX in grad school (math), I started getting better grades. I don't think my actual quality of work increased, but I was able to get away with less convincing arguments.
The kind of clothes that they wear. Which is probably not the same kind of clothes.
This will happen every time you meet someone new, even when the person belongs to the same group as you.
The question is: what do you want to do about it? Is it a reasonable ask for society to suppress how it identifies you? Should you acknowledge the reality and work with it?
Different groups and communities have approached this issue in different ways: band together and support each other, organize politically, organize protests, use guilt, stay low and work hard, use another strength to gain leverage, etc. Some of these strategies and tactics will gain the community respect. Others will strengthen the stereotype - they may get what they want but will lose something else.
Inline excerpts:
> The test-retest reliability (repeatability) of the Race IAT is only .42, which falls well below the psychometric standard of .80. Your score on the IAT can fluctuate significantly from one testing to the next. Hart Blanton, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut, has noted the ease with which people can decrease their racial bias score “by simply exposing people to pictures of African-Americans enjoying a picnic.”
> The validity of IAT scores has also come under scrutiny. In 2013, Frederick Oswald and his research team published a meta-analysis of 46 studies.[1] They found that IAT scores are poor predictors of actual behavior and policy preferences. They also found that IAT scores predicted behaviors and policy preferences no better than scores on simple paper-and-pencil measures of prejudice.
> Perhaps the most interesting feature of the debate concerns how to interpret IAT scores. Some social psychologists believe the IAT measures prejudice, while others believe the IAT measures our knowledge of common stereotypes.
> They then took a version of the Race IAT with Noffians and Fasites standing in for Blacks and Whites, respectively. The students showed a consistent bias against Noffians, not because they perceived Noffians as bad but because they perceived them as bad off.
>White applicants get about 50 percent more call-backs than black applicants with the same resumes; college professors are 26 percent more likely to respond to a student’s email when it is signed by Brad rather than Lamar; and physicians recommend less pain medication for black patients than white patients with the same injury.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-think-abou...
> Almost a third of naturalizing immigrants abandoned their first names by 1930 and acquired popular American names such as William, John or Charles. [...] Widespread name Americanization prompts the question of whether it had an impact on migrants’ economic success. Figure 1 provides a preliminary answer to this question. Name Americanization into the most popular names - e.g. the top quartile - was associated with an occupation-based earnings increase of above 10%. These gains were larger than those experienced by migrants Americanizing into less popular names - e.g. the first quartile - and even more so than those experienced by migrants who kept their original name or changed to a more distinctive name.
As to speculation on why that is, could be as simple as the fact that the brain capacity is rather limited. Handling unfamiliar letter/phoneme sequences requires more energy. As entropic creatures, we simply take the lowest energy path whenever possible.