Most users/developers only go by their online handle so gender is irrelevant. The best contributors will rise to the top. There is no way to tell whether a male or female or whatever of the 96 genders people are pushing these days wrote a piece of code just by looking at it.
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Exactly, gender is irrelevant.
Should be irrelevant, but the fact that there is no tendency towards a 50/50 (random selection) indicates a systemic problem.
BTW, do you remember the cases of women programmers hiding their gender to avoid problems related to that? Sexism is still a thing, even in technology.
You suggest there should be a 50/50 distribution. Thats where things go wrong.
I am not suggesting there should be a 50/50 distribution, I suggest that in a non-sexist situation, statistics would tend to 50/50. It is not the same
You tie it it to the concept 'non sexist situation'. Is everything not 50/50 distributed 'sexist' then?
Well, I see your statistics are not excelent, so end of discussion. Sorry if you fear of women taking your job, you can still go to cry at/pol/
I see only one shying away when pressed for an explanation.