Hi,

Committee rosters:
Total: 4738
% Male: 75.3
% Female: 4.8
% Unknown: 19.9

The above is interesting e.g. Is that % drop just chance or an example of 
unconscious bias or something else like time commitment required? If it's not 
obvious this data over the previous represents 2219 people who have signed 
ICLAs but have never for one reason or another never become a committer. 
Committer vs PMC breakdown may also be interesting.

Chairs:
Total: 213
% Male: 78.9
% Female: 6.1
% Unknown: 15.0

And again slightly different percentages.

What perhaps more striking is the unknown % being reduced, from 25% to 20% (and 
to 15%), that seem indicative of something.The gender guesser I’m using [1] has 
a database of 40,000 names and includes multiple nationalities but it could be 
favouring some sort of names over others and as could we. Looking further into 
the unknown names may give some insights.

If anyone has any better insights into this, or can suggest what to look for, 
please speak up.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://pypi.org/project/gender-guesser/


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