Gender diversity in open source software development continues to be a topic of growing interest among researchers, practitioners, and organizations. To date, research has revealed disparities in participation between developers on the basis of gender, with women being significantly underrepresented in open source development. Using a large data set curated for studies of diversity in open source projects, we contribute to this body of work by characterizing the relationship between gender-based participation differences and group composition in GitHub. We found that contributors identified as women and contributors of unknown gender have a shorter tenure in open source projects compared to those identified as men. Additionally, at the team level, we found that project teams with mixed-gender composition were associated with lower turnover and teams with greater disparity in the distribution of platform tenure were associated with higher turnover. Finally, our case study reveals that when looking at the entire team, GitHub users were more likely to remain in a project rather than leave after contributing but when looking at women specifically, users were more likely to leave rather than remain after contributing to a project.
翻译:开放源码软件开发中的性别多样性仍然是研究人员、从业者和各组织日益感兴趣的一个专题,迄今为止,研究发现开发者之间在性别参与方面存在差异,在开放源码开发中妇女代表人数严重不足;利用为公开源码项目多样性研究而整理的大量数据集,我们通过在GitHub中说明基于性别的参与差异和群体组成之间的关系,为这项工作作出了贡献;我们发现,在公开源码项目中,被确定为妇女和不明性别贡献者的人的任职期限比男子短;此外,在团队一级,我们发现,男女混合组成的项目小组与更替率较低有关,平台使用权分配差异较大的小组与更替率有关;最后,我们的案例研究表明,在考察整个团队时,GitHub用户更有可能留在项目中,而不是在出任后离开,但具体地看妇女时,用户更可能离开项目,而不是在为项目作出贡献后继续工作。