On 11.02.2016, at 23:20, Laura Hale <laura@fanhistory.com> wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Has-the-female-participation-on-Quora-changed-in-the-past-6-months-if-so-how/answer/Laura-Hale is not peer reviewed (though if you want my data) but I'm the only person inside the community looking at gender issue on Quora.
In the past six months, there has been a noticable shift in female participation type on Quora, to the point where it surpassed that of men. It isn't necessarily translating towards higher female user rates but it is on the participation side.
Sincerely,Laura Hale_______________________________________________
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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