Women Considered Better Coders – But Only If They Hide Their Gender
by The Daily Eye Team February 16 2016, 4:33 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 22 secsWhen a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudiced against code written by women.
After all, women make up a very small percentage of software developers – 11.2% according to one 2013 survey – and the presence of sexism in all corners of the overwhelmingly male tech industry has been well documented.