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Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The results of a recent survey conducted by GitHub sheds light on the issue of why women developers are hard to recruit and keep in the business of tech. Windows IT Pro reports: "The 2017 Open Source Survey 'collected responses from 5,500 randomly sampled respondents sourced from over 3,800 open source repositories on GitHub.com, and over 500 responses from a non-random sample of communities that work on other platforms.' Although the survey focused on open source and asked 50 questions on a wide range of topics that were in no way focused on gender issues alone, some of the data collected offers insight into why the developer industry as a whole has trouble recruiting and keeping female devs. Indeed, the severity of the gender gap in open source is substantial. In the survey, 95 percent of respondents were men, with the response rate from women at only 3 percent -- a degree of under-representation that's not seen elsewhere in this study. Other groups show numbers that are more proportionate to their numbers in the general population, with 'ethnic or national minorities' representing 16 percent of the respondents, immigrants at 26 percent, and 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, or another minority sexual orientation' at 7 percent. The problems that women in tech face are pretty much what you might expect. Twenty-five percent of the women surveyed report 'encountering language or content that makes them feel unwelcome,' compared with 15 percent of men. Women are six times more likely to encounter stereotyping than men (12 versus 2 percent), and twice as likely to be subjected to unsolicited sexual advances (6 vs 3 percent)."
This math is brought to you by a female developer ftom facebook who doesn't understand why her code is oftenough rejected.
Covfefe much?
Linus could've fooled me...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I like technologies with ISO, ANSI or IEEE standards, not documents saying you can't use it if you're a meanie.
I looked up dictinary in the dictionary. It doesn't exist.
Worst. Signature. Ever.
It's because they sit down for the awful pissing contests happening every day.
Nevermind that. There was a story in the news just now about someone named "Reality".
Can you guess their sex, or their gender?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
These stories always turn into dumpster fires
Only because you keep participating.
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
You may be on to something here. I was accused of being sexist (through a third party) by a former coworker because I "avoided" her.
I avoid all my co-workers.
Of course if I had heard this directly we could have resolved the misunderstanding. "There is no bigotry here, you are all equally worthless."
Though perhaps I subconsciously did avoid the feminist one more to avoid that exact awkward conversation. Same reason I avoid my extremely left or right wing coworkers.
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