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Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Out of 4,037,953 GitHub user profiles with email addresses, we were able to identify 1,426,121 (35.3%) of them as men or women through their public Google+ profiles.

Could be a confounding variable in that the type of people who reveal their gender publicly might differ from those who don't in some way that is also related to their contribution quality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That might also be the case, but that then raises the question of the quality of PRs in order to judge the contribution quality of "anonymous" contributors.

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