According to one 2013 survey, women make up a very small percentage of software developers 11.2% .
Github is an enormous developer community which does not request gender information from its 12 million users.
On GitHub, womens contributions actually outnumber mensas long as they dont actually identify themselves as women.
However, when a womans 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.
The researchers analyzed around 1.4 million users that logged on to coding website GitHub on April 1, 2015.
There is a similar drop for men, but the effect is not as strong, said the paper.
The tech world definitely has a long way to go to end this gender discrimination.
source: www.techworm.net
