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  • Michael Lynchmichael@m.mtlynch.io
    Oct 21, 2026, 12:56 PM

    @Gina @fosdem Can you clarify the source of that stat? The linked paper seems to say that women's PRs are accepted at a *higher* rate before and after controlling for insider status.

    Open source effects Perhaps our GitHub data are not representative of the open source community; while all projects we analyzed were public, not all of them are licensed as open source. Nonetheless, if we restrict our analysis to just projects that are explicitly licensed as open source, women continue to have a higher acceptance rate (χ2(df = 1,n = 1,424,127) = 347,p < .001) Insider effects Perhaps women’s high acceptance rate is because they are already well known in the projects they make pull requests in. Pull requests can be made by anyone, including both insiders (explicitly authorized owners and collaborators) and outsiders (other GitHub users). If we exclude insiders from our analysis, the women’s acceptance rate (62.1% [61.65%,62.53%]) continues to be significantly higher than men’s (60.7% [60.65%,60.82%]) (χ2(df = 1,n = 1,372,834) = 35,p < .001).
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