Thought I'd pass this along. Haven't read the whole article yet, but it sounds fascinating.TL;DR: Looks like contributions by women are accepted more often than those by men, but only if the project leader doesn't know the pull request is coming from a woman.Excellent summary: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/data-analysis-of-github-contributions-reveals-unexpected-gender-bias/Preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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