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

submitted 6 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] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would someone know your gender, out your identity?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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

[–] andioop 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I figured it would look more professional, and it would also let me separate the contributions I made with my more anonymous GitHub out—not too sure how closely they investigate your previous contributions and how good your code was.

I am guessing this was not a good choice, and I should have just continued using my more anonymous GitHub, or made the account as JSmith instead of JaneSmith.