The researchers used data taken from the Github program-sharing platform New research shows that software coding changes suggested by women had higher approval ratings than those from men - but only if their gender was not identifiable. The US researchers analysed nearly 1.4 million users of the open source program-sharing service Github. Ratings for women fell if they were not regulars on the ser
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