Brianna White

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The technology sector at large struggles to attract and retain women but in open-source communities, the situation is considerably worse.
Some estimate that just 6% of GitHub contributors are women. On the occasion of Ada Lovelace Day, the annual celebration of women in technology on October 12, this week we look at what is needed to increase gender equality in open source.
Women belong in technology leadership because we think differently. It’s always cool when there’s a project tech lead who is a woman because they come in with a different background and often a new perspective. I think the way we communicate tends to be more collaborative and we think differently: We see the skills of people across different levels of the organization and outside, and so we’re able to loop them into projects.
The gender disparity in the open-source community is massive. When GitHub last surveyed its community in 2017, just 3 percent of the respondents were women. Women say they are interested in making open-source contributions about as much as men (68 percent compared with 73 percent), but fewer say it’s likely they will actually do so (45 percent versus 61 percent).
Continue reading: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/how-to-get-more-women-in-open-source/
 

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