Monday, February 15, 2016

Gender Bias in Open Source?

A few excerpts:

  • 78.6 percent of women's pull requests were actually accepted and merged into the code, while only 74.4 percent of men's pull requests were
  • When a woman offered a pull request on an open source project where she was an outsider—in other words, where none of the project leads knew her—her contributions were far less likely to be accepted than ones from outsider men. 
  • When a woman's gender wasn't obvious from her Github profile, her patch would be accepted more often than a patch from a man; but when a woman's gender was clear, her patches were less likely to be accepted by men.

Read more in ars technica.

Thanks, +Daniel Romero 

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