For regular contributors, women appear* to accept a man&#x27;s work (slightly) more than they will a woman&#x27;s, and men appear to accept a woman&#x27;s work more than they will a man&#x27;s. Since there are more men than women, this means that on the whole women are privileged.<p>* appear: maybe men or women have a different internal bar for how polished they&#x27;ll make a pull request (how afraid they are of rejection, etc). the study looks at profiles that are closeted vs out as a gender. If you reveal gender on purpose, this tells us something about you, presumably, but for convenience the difference between closeted and out is taken to signify &quot;bias against [out] men&#x2F;women&quot;. Much of this is not statistically significant, probably (study doesn&#x27;t give enough info, and suspiciously did an &quot;insider&quot; vs &quot;outsider&quot; analysis rather than a pooled analysis, suggesting they didn&#x27;t like what they found until they split into two pools).<p>For unsolicited outside contributions, closeted men seem to get rejected more than closeted women (men&#x27;s bar is lower?). Out men get rejected more than closeted men or women. Out women get rejected more than closeted men or women. The key is: for this category, people appear to be <i>less</i> biased against out men than out women (but somehow people prefer contributions from hidden-gender folks?).<p>Anyway, this is interesting stuff but I&#x27;m not sure what to take from it. I do expect more low-quality outside-team submissions from men than women, and I might judge them unfairly if they were out men, but this is just a random hunch and I doubt it would affect me much (probably I wouldn&#x27;t notice).