The Linux Foundation's report on diversity, equity, and inclusionin open source

Posted Jan 7, 2022 22:16 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The Linux Foundation's report on diversity, equity, and inclusionin open source by Wol
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's report on diversity, equity, and inclusion in open source

> Given a moderate amount of context, the language gives away the gender of the speaker.

Yet somehow that factor doesn't play any role in reality as study shows.

> Disguise it with a clearly male-sounding name, and the signals are confused enough for the patch to get through.

Nope. It's pretty hard to quantify but I'm sure what happens is quite conscious bias similar to your native speaker / foreigner story.

It's not enough to have female name. No. What's needed is to not flaunt your gender. Don't bring it up, don't talk about it, don't flaunt it — and your contribution would be accepted. Easily.

But if you would demand to be treated “fairly” (read: better) because you belong to some kind of minority… then sure enough, I would try to silently ignore you.

Not because your contribution is bad and not because of some kind of crazy “unconscious bias”, but because of quite conscious avoidance of someone who would continue to demand unreasonable level of attention and unreasonable expenditure of my time.