%0 Report %1 Terrell2016Gender %A Terrell, Josh %A Kofink, Andrew %A Middleton, Justin %A Rainear, Clarissa %A Murphy-Hill, Emerson %A Parnin, Chris %D 2016 %I PeerJ Inc. %J PeerJ PrePrints %K social computing openaccess gender %R 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1 %T Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men %U http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1 %X Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. 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.

@techreport{Terrell2016Gender, abstract = {Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. 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.}, added-at = {2018-06-18T21:23:34.000+0200}, author = {Terrell, Josh and Kofink, Andrew and Middleton, Justin and Rainear, Clarissa and Murphy-Hill, Emerson and Parnin, Chris}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eaf847a44eb8b847f3415cc6a17fb0b3/pbett}, citeulike-article-id = {13932178}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/}, day = 09, doi = {10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1}, interhash = {833967258e87a5456ceaf57172ab7e58}, intrahash = {eaf847a44eb8b847f3415cc6a17fb0b3}, issn = {2167-9843}, journal = {PeerJ PrePrints}, keywords = {social computing openaccess gender}, month = feb, posted-at = {2016-02-12 23:39:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {PeerJ Inc.}, timestamp = {2018-06-22T18:36:14.000+0200}, title = {Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1733v1}, year = 2016 }