The plight of female coders—that their code is considered superior when they are anonymous, but inferior when they are identified—reflects the same paradigm in the rest of the world. Remember the experiment that found teachers gave girls better math grades than boys, but only when the papers were anonymous? The same holds true here. In coding, as in school math—as in life—women are marked down simply for being female.
Ugh
(But also: find it hard to blame github for this bias as it’s the bias of its users that are at play, not necessarily that of its employees—sexism scandals aside)
