Candice TillmanResearchers in the U.S. have suggested that female programmers are severely discriminated against.
According to a recent study by scientists from the University of North Carolina, it was found that women are better at writing code than men.
They came to this conclusion after studying the information on 1.4 million users, which equals 35% of the GitHub platform, the largest web service for hosting IT projects and their collaborative development. The researchers took as a basis the information specified in the profile of users, and with the help of social networks, a search engine and a special program determined their gender identity.
The main indicator of success the scientists considered accepted requests for code editing, as well as approved edits. It turned out that the share of approved edits for women is 78.6%, while for men it is 74.6%. At the same time they noticed that edits made by women, whose gender could be determined by their name in the profile, were rejected more often than those made by men.
