Your summary of the claim is not the same as the claim. &quot;Women on github&quot; are not &quot;women in general.&quot;<p>There is a well established idea that glass ceiling-type barriers require higher competence from women to push through the barriers holding them back than men face.<p>Though I suspect you&#x27;ll find the last sentence of this quote off-putting, it&#x27;s often summarized as the following:<p>&gt; “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” - Charlotte Whitton.