{"id":3348,"date":"2016-02-15T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:56:15","slug":"study-shows-women-program-better-if-people-dont-know-they-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/studiu-femeile-programeaza-mai-bine-daca-nu-se-stie-ca-sunt-femei\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Women code better if they are not known to be women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-canvas-width=\"505.0872746666666\">In 2012, a programmer named Rachel Nabors proposed fixes to some bugs in open-source software published on the collaboration platform GitHub.<\/p>\n<p data-canvas-width=\"505.0872746666666\">Rachel was surprised to find that all of her proposals were rejected by the project coordinator. The rejections were polite and usually justified by style or procedural errors. Intrigued, Rachel published a <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelnabors.com\/2012\/04\/of-github-and-pull-requests-and-comics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">article<\/a> on her blog about her problem. Naughty but realistic, one reader commented that maybe the programmer&#039;s gender was to blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"page\" data-loaded=\"true\" data-page-number=\"1\">It took a few years and a <a href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/preprints\/1733.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">study<\/a> conducted by American researchers to confirm, at least theoretically, the idea. It seems that female programmers are even better appreciated than their male colleagues, but for maximum appreciation, it is not necessary to know that they are women...<\/p>\n<p class=\"page\" data-loaded=\"true\" data-page-number=\"1\">Before anyone gets angry, let&#039;s look at the figures, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-35559439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub has a community of 12 million programmers, but it doesn&#039;t require gender disclosure in user profiles. However, researchers were able to determine the gender of 1.4 million users, or 12% of the total. How did they do it? Either because the gender was obvious from the profile data or because they found the email address in public profiles on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with this information, the researchers discovered the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>out of a sample of nearly 1.4 million users, 71.81% of women&#039;s suggestions for program changes were accepted.<\/li>\n<li>The interesting part: four times as many proposals made by women were accepted as those made by men.<\/li>\n<li>The even more interesting part: the proportion of acceptances dropped to 62.5% when the user was identifiable as female.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do we deduce from this?<\/strong> It&#039;s better not to deduce anything and try to fix something on March 1st and 8th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"badge-item-img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ao9NyGg_700b.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Hamilton Female Programmer Apollo Project\" width=\"500\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center>and<\/center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kodingtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eae3c2f8fbef804f1035369a5d689e43.jpg\" alt=\"Man approaches woman via coded message\" width=\"441\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00cen 2012, o programatoare pe nume Rachel Nabors a propus rezolv\u0103ri la ni\u0219te bug-uri dintr-un software open-source publicat pe platforma de colaborare GitHub. Rachel a fost suprins\u0103 s\u0103 observe c\u0103 toate propunerile ei erau respinse de coordonatorul proiectului. Respingerile erau politicoase \u0219i de obicei justificate prin gre\u0219eli de stil sau procedur\u0103. Intrigat\u0103, Rachel a publicat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koding-tech-select"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kodingtech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}