[fractalsea]

In the intro you say that data from >1000 interviews shows:

> men were getting advanced to the next round 1.4 times more than women

> men [...] had an average technical score of 3 out of 4, as compared to a 2.5 out of 4 for women

The conclusion of your experiment was

> masking gender had no effect on interview performance

So the question is: why do women perform worse (by the above metrics) even if the interviewer does not know they are a women?

Unfortunately you spend the remainder of the article showing that women are more likely to quit after bad interviews, and hypothesise that this is due to lower self confidence. This is interesting and all, but it does nothing towards explaining the discrepancy you described in the introduction!