论文标题
公共法规贡献中的性别差异：50年的观点
Gender Differences in Public Code Contributions: a 50-year Perspective
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论文摘要
一般信息技术中的性别不平衡，特别是免费/开源软件，是该领域的众所周知的问题。尽管如此，关于这一现象的大规模范围和长期趋势，鲜为人知。我们通过对公开可用软件源代码的贡献者进行纵向研究来填补这一空白。我们分析了16亿美元的提议，与1.2亿个项目的发展历史相对应，在50年的时间内由3300万个不同的作者贡献。我们通过性别对作者的姓名进行分类，并随着时间的推移研究其进化。我们表明，尽管女性作者的承诺数量总体上仍然很少，但有证据表明，其比例稳定地增加了所有贡献的比例，从而为协作软件开发提供了更加平衡的未来。
Gender imbalance in information technology in general, and Free/Open Source Software specifically, is a well-known problem in the field. Still, little is known yet about the large-scale extent and long-term trends that underpin the phenomenon. We contribute to fill this gap by conducting a longitudinal study of the population of contributors to publicly available software source code. We analyze 1.6 billion commits corresponding to the development history of 120 million projects, contributed by 33 million distinct authors over a period of 50 years. We classify author names by gender and study their evolution over time.We show that, while the amount of commits by female authors remains low overall, there is evidence of a stable long-term increase in their proportion over all contributions, providing hope of a more gender-balanced future for collaborative software development.
