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# Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men
- URL: https://werd.io/gender-differences-and-bias-in-open-source-pull-request-acceptance/
- Published: 2022-09-19T00:33:50.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-19T00:33:50.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to a project and their gender is identifiable, men’s acceptance rates are higher. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/)\]