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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Fri 31 May 2019 11:40 - 12:00 at Viger - Developer Biases and Trust Chair(s): Kelly Blincoe

Diversity, including gender diversity, is valued by many software development organizations, yet the field remains dominated by men. One reason for this lack of diversity is gender bias. In this paper, we study the effects of that bias by using an existing framework derived from the gender studies literature. We adapt the four main effects proposed in the framework by posing hypotheses about how they might manifest on GitHub, then evaluate those hypotheses quantitatively. While our results show that effects are largely invisible on the GitHub platform itself, there are still signals of women concentrating their work in fewer places and being more restrained in communication than men.

Fri 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Developer Biases and TrustTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers / Papers at Viger
Chair(s): Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
11:00
20m
Talk
FLOSS Participants' Perceptions about Gender and Inclusiveness: A SurveyTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Amanda Lee University of Alabama, Jeff Carver University of Alabama
Pre-print
11:20
20m
Talk
Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open SourceACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Huilian Sophie Qiu Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Alexander Nolte University of Tartu, Anita Brown Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
Investigating the Effects of Gender Bias on GitHubTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Technical Track
Nasif Imtiaz North Carolina State University, Justin Middleton , Joymallya Chakraborty , Neill Robson NC State University, Gina Bai North Carolina State University, Emerson Murphy-Hill Google
Pre-print
12:00
10m
Research paper
Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping StudyJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Rahul Mohanani Indraprastha Institue of Information Technology, Iflaah Salman University of Oulu, Burak Turhan Monash University, Pilar Rodriguez University of Oulu, Paul Ralph University of Auckland
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
12:10
20m
Talk
Discussion Period
Papers