https://www.quora.com/Has-the-female-participation-on-Quora-changed-in-the-past-6-months-if-so-how/answer/Laura-Hale is not peer reviewed (though if you want my data) but I'm the only person inside the community looking at gender issue on Quora.
In the past six months, there has been a noticable shift in female participation type on Quora, to the point where it surpassed that of men. It isn't necessarily translating towards higher female user rates but it is on the participation side. Sincerely, Laura Hale On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed.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)> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- twitter: purplepopple
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