Gender bias prevents female coders from being judged solely on their work. Their work might be great, but the fact that they're women makes it less desirable.
That's according to a new study published this week that looks at how gender bias plays out in software development.
A hot topic to be sure given that just 20% of software developers are women -- and that tech firms have increasingly promised to do better when it comes to inclusion efforts.
The study, conducted by a team of six computer science researchers, looks at 3 million suggested code contributions (called "pull requests") on GitHub.
GitHub is a popular open-source software platform used by 12 million developers to collaborate, critique, and ask questions about coding projects.
"We hypothesized that pull requests made by women are less likely to be accepted than those made by men," wrote the team of researchers which consisted of students and assistant professors at North Carolina State University and Cal Polytech State University, California.