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Women devs – want your pull requests accepted? Just don't tell anyone you're a girl

Yugguy

I expect votedowns

From insecure blokes but it has been my experience that the truism that women usually have to work twice as hard to be seen as even half as good is still alive and well out there.

"As a result, the researchers suggest that overall, the women contributing code to GitHub are more competent than their male counterparts,.... Despite this, the researchers also conclude that women are still seen as less competent than men "

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