New Study Suggests That Women Write Better Code Than Men

Different articles highlight the findings of the Study: Gender Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men using data from GithubA New Study Suggests That Women Write Better Code Than Men summarises the findings, pointing out that the ‘the study found a clear gender bias, as women’s acceptance rates drop down to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable’. It concludes that although women on Github are shown to be more competent, they face a bias about their work.