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by detaro 2935 days ago
Yes, and the one of women drops below the one of men, and that's clearly what the initial reference to the paper was talking about.
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But only in the case of 'outsiders'. In the case of 'insiders' the acceptance rate of men drops more than that of women when their gender is known (no p-value provided so hard to tell if statistically significant).
A person trying to use github as a hiring signal is going to be an outsider at some point.