Gender differences in public code contributions: A 50-year perspective

Stefano Zacchiroli

doi:10.1109/MS.2020.3038765

Gender differences in public code contributions: A 50-year perspective

Stefano Zacchiroli

Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires

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We study the gender of commits authors over 120 million projects and a period of 50 years. Commits by female authors remain low overall but are growing steadily, providing hope of a more gender-balanced future for collaborative software development.

langue originale	Anglais
Numéro d'article	9261329
Pages (de - à)	45-50
Nombre de pages	6
journal	IEEE Software
Volume	38
Numéro de publication	2
Les DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.3038765
état	Publié - 1 mars 2021
Modification externe	Oui

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