'If we don't solve for this at the open source level, we risk making tech, overall, even worse.'
, however, 95% of respondents were male and just 3% were female . It turns out that 68% of the female respondents are"very interested" in contributing to open source, but are significantly less likely to do so than men .
The reason? Well, men, to put it bluntly . For those who don't think diversity matters, this post won't convince you. But for those who would like to see open source development become more representative of the people who will use it, aAccording to that survey, women are far more likely to say they'd be more likely to contribute to open source"if the open source community was more inclusive." That inclusivity is often measured by how welcoming open source is.
This same thing is revealed in the GitHub survey, where men and women diverge on key areas like codes of conduct and welcoming communities (There are hints that maybe things are getting better, with younger developers expressing a more positive experience with open source than older peers (But a certain blindness persists.
This seems intuitively correct, and fortunately also has good data/science behind the intuition. There are scads of studies showing that the more diverse a company, the better its financial performance (including
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