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Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed.

J

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Wikimedia Foundation
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