https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.08763/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707433urn:hackerpapers:mention:2103.08763:36707433Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:10:30 GMT<p>This is true for employees in mainstream careers. Unfortunately it seems to not hold when looking at major open source projects, where gender diversity is routinely below 10% female. The picture gets even worse when proportioning representation by the quantity of changes/commits, where female representation is well below that. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.08763.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.08763/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29414628urn:hackerpapers:mention:2103.08763:29414628Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:53:11 GMT<p>&gt; You can look at the pipeline of programmers and you will see a demographic pretty similar to open source. Source please? Last I heard of, that was not the case. As https://www.wired.com/2017/06/diversity-open-source-even-wor... contexualizes about the research published at https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/ : ] GitHub, the world&#x27;s leading repository of open-source code, surveyed 5,500 open source users and developers from around the world on a range of topics. It also asked for demographic information. And it was informative. Of that randomly selected cohort, a full 95 percent of…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.08763/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE