Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men - eviltoast

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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    6 months ago

    I mean it’s not exactly uncommon nowadays, there’s tons of commenters on this post that have their pronouns displayed next to their username