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by uitgewis 3468 days ago
Found a paper linked to by the same person: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/
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That paper describes the opposite effect to what OP is claiming - women as a whole get their pull requests accepted more often than men. I just skimmed the paper, but there was a large amount of explanations offered as to why this might be the case(e.g. only more experienced women contribute, women are more "well-known", women are making smaller pull requests, etc, etc) and all the ones I skimmed were rejected by the data. While there is probably a meaningful explanation(with lots of cators) why women are more likely to be accepted than men, at the very least, the incredulous proposition that gnupg developers were rejecting 100% of "female" patches is not supported by this paper in any way.
The paper states that the acceptance rates are only higher when they are not identifiable as women

> However, women's acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women

Thanks, this is the relevant part of the paper for that claim:

> For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates drop by 10.2% when their gender is identifiable, compared to when it is not (2(df= 1;n= 18;540) =131;p < :001). There is a smaller 5.7% drop for men (2(df= 1;n= 659;560) = 103;p <:001). Women have a higher acceptance rate of pull requests overall (as we reported earlier),but when they are outsiders and their gender is identifiable, they have a lower acceptance rate than men

Accepting arguendo that this is clear evidence of a gender bias, its effects are not as clearly pronounced as the tweet tries to imply they are.

Sure, except the author of the tweets also states that they believe this project in particular is a particularly bad outlier, with projects varying: https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/811510038166695937