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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by cperciva on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:47AM (#14253110)
Last year, a study of coders on the open source repository GitHub found that code written by women was actually more likely to be approved by fellow coders than code written by men – but only if the female coders hid their gender. Female coders with profiles that made their gender “identifiable” had their code rejected more often than male coders.

That study has been so thoroughly debunked at this point that I'm inclined to assume bad faith on the part of any journalist who cites it.

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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by Iv on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:26AM (#14255068)
Never heard of this study or it's debunking. I would owe you 2 TIL if you could provide some sources!
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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by forgottenpass on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:06PM (#14256986)
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...
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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by Iv on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:56AM (#14274379)
Thanks a lot!
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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by melbourne7 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:31PM (#14261188)
that's GitHub, not Facebook
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Re:At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35%... by forgottenpass on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:46PM (#14261259)
Did you even read cperciva's comment upthread?
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