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Preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/ Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed.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 -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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