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

submitted 6 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/foss

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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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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

...or the research is flawed. Gender identity was gained from social media accounts. So maybe it's a general bias against social media users (half joking).

[–] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think (unless I misunderstood the paper), they only included people who had a Google+ profile with a gender specified in the study at all (this is from 2016 when Google were still trying to make Google+ a thing).