id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ptt4wjnlafbitn5ku5cpz22awy Josh Terrell Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men 2017 30 .pdf application/pdf 12451 1250 65 (2017), Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men. Figure 1 GitHub user 'JustinAMiddleton' makes a pull request; the repository owner 'akofink' accepts it by merging it. GitHub data to evaluate whether pull requests from women are accepted less often. women tend to have their pull requests accepted at a higher rate than men! Why might women have a higher acceptance rate than men, given the gender bias Figure 4 Pull request acceptance rate by number of projects contributed to. pull requests that make changes to program code, women's high acceptance rates might to have their pull requests accepted than women whose gender cannot be easily inferred, Figure 7 Acceptance rates for men and women for all data, outsiders, and open source projects using explain why women's pull request acceptance rate drops when their gender is apparent. ./cache/work_ptt4wjnlafbitn5ku5cpz22awy.pdf ./txt/work_ptt4wjnlafbitn5ku5cpz22awy.txt