Sex bias in hiring does exist! Women are favored while men are discriminated against.

A meta analysis of real-world experiments spanning over four decades (1976-2020) found that all hiring bias against women has disappeared in the studied countries (mostly the West + China).

Since the 2000s, women have been favored for "female-type" and "gender-balanced" jobs, and since the 2010s, even "male-type" jobs have reached sex parity, meaning women are favored for "all jobs." [An odds ratio above 1 = male bias, below 1 = female bias].

The paper also surveyed US laymen and academics, who both overestimated sex bias in hiring practices to a significant degree — i.e. they hallucinated nonexistent discrimination against women.

Source: On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions (2023)