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That might be survivor bias no? The employed people you talk to in your age range are employed, you aren't hearing from the person that is moving somewhere else because of lack of job.
As a white dude that has been privvy to conservative male bosses, I have heard direct statements of :
we won't hire HER because she might get pregnant
we won't hire HER because she won't know about mechanical things (even though resume was from a tool shop)
he didn't get hired because he was black, he was the best candidate, but the owner doesn't like black people (owner was Asian)
"Lived experience" counts for other groups, why would you think it shouldn't count for us? Plus, surprisingly perhaps, I have a bunch of friends that I don't work with, where we discuss this stuff. Part of growing up local (though most of my friends from hs are minority folks, technically). I've not lilypadded much, so four of my five bosses historically have been women -- the majority of most management in those orgs, women.
While I wouldn't question your lived experiences, my own, and that of people around me in real life who I generally trust more than a rando online, support my viewpoint. This also includes a few managers in the federal government, who are pissed off with the demographic hoops they need to jump through for hiring/promoting people. Like there'll be suitable local candidates, but the gov forces them to appoint people from the other side of the country to meet the racial quota.