Do you realize what you've done--how you're misleading people? You probably don't want to be.

You quoted two studies with similar results--that ought to be pretty definitive, shouldn't it?

Except the recent one is from Australia! Australia hasn't had the decades of racial-bias-awareness that the U.S. has, and yet you're talking about the U.S.. It's a great paper! One of the best, in my view. But it's about Australia. Aussies have got some work ahead of them if they're going to do right by their mates who don't happen to have an English-sounding name.

And the second one? That's from the U.S....in 2003! From all the rhetoric you hear these days, you might think that it doesn't matter that it was 20 years ago. But all the evidence is that it does matter. A huge (80,000 application) study done by U.C. Berkeley in 2021 shows only ~10% disparity (https://eml.berkeley.edu//~crwalters/papers/randres.pdf; see bottom of Table 1). One summary article I read characterized this as "not much has changed", but that's only true if the size of numbers doesn't matter. To me, it looks like 4/5 of the problem has been fixed, at least with large employers (UCB only looked at those); 10% is still not great and more needs to be done, but that's a lot more surmountable than 50% (and the paper indicates that it's mostly due to pockets of strong bias, not widespread weak bias, but the statistical support for that claim is less good so I wouldn't be entirely sure).

The U.S. is actually solving this one--not fully, not yet, but it's most of the way there. Actually solving hiring bias, specifically, not bias overall; I don't know the literature on the rest very well. I just happen to know the hiring literature decently, which is why I know your characterization is misleading.

So, anyway--using studies to support your points, great! Using studies from different countries or which are two decades old--not so great! People like to collect studies like they are ancient wisdom from the masters, but society is changing all the time and is different everywhere, so it's important to keep up if you want to inform your readers rather than mislead them and yourself.