SPLASH 2015 (series) / Student Research Competition /
Contributions of the Under-Appreciated: Gender Bias in an Open-Source Ecology
Female software developers account for only a small portion of the total developer community. This inequality is caused by subtle beliefs and sometimes interactions between different genders and society, referred to as implicit biases and explicit behavior, respectively. In this study, I mined user contribution acceptance from a popular software collaboration service. The contributions of female developers were accepted into open-source projects with roughly equivalent success to those of males, partially discounting recent findings that explicit behavior accompanies implicit gender bias, while bolstering the claim that implicit bias is cultural, rather than as a result of innate differences.
Wed 28 Oct
18:00 - 21:00: Student Research Competition - Posters at Admiral and Reflections Chair(s): Sam GuyerTufts University, Patrick LamUniversity of Waterloo, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Aritra SenguptaOhio State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Josh TerrellCalifornia Polytechnic University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Nima JoharizadehUniversity of California, Davis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Swarnendu BiswasOhio State University, USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Ragnar MogkTechnische Universität Darmstadt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Anthony CaninoSUNY Binghamton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Andrew KofinkNorth Carolina State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Flavio MedeirosFederal University of Campina Grande | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Minjia ZhangOhio State University, USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18:00 - 21:00 Talk | Nistor LigiaCarnegie Mellon University |