Gender bias in open-source programming

Monday, May 1, 2017 - 10:02 in Psychology & Sociology

A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that, overall, women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's -- but when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often.

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