matthewskelton ,
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. 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."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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yuvalne ,
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"To summarize this paper’s observations:

  1. Women are more likely to have pull requests accepted than men.
  2. Women continue to have high acceptance rates as they gain experience.
  3. Women’s pull requests are less likely to serve an immediate project need.
  4. Women’s changes are larger.
  5. Women’s acceptance rates are higher across programming languages.
  6. Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women."
    wow. just wow.
grimalkina ,
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Great demo of a pervasive dynamic, to get through a gate in fields that activate gender biases we require women to be at the highest achievement level to be treated comparably to lower achieving men

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/math-intensive-fields-have-a-gender-problem-the-men-are-worse-at-math/

Also potentially demos the backlash effect, where socially punishing bias incongruence can be considered more important than getting the value of the work itself. Highly technical women can be hated FOR technical achievement

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191308508000051

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