What a lazy comment.  I recommend looking at the actual study [1].  It is reported as showing that male programmers are incompetent and misogynist.  However, when you look at the data (especially Fig. 5 on page 15) you&#x27;ll find that this claim is baseless.  Male outsiders showed the exact same drop in acceptance rates when their avatar was gendered as women outsiders did.  No evidence for gender bias.<p>Looking at the data for insiders (left part of Fig. 5), you have evidence that male insiders have lower PR acceptance rates when their avatar was gendered but women insiders don&#x27;t.  Applying the authors&#x27; logic you would have to conclude that tech is biased against men, which is nonsense and which illustrates that the reasoning used in this study isn&#x27;t sound.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peerj.com&#x2F;preprints&#x2F;1733.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peerj.com&#x2F;preprints&#x2F;1733.pdf</a><p>Edit: Down voting instead of responding is lazy, too.