&gt; Based on my own experience of github and open source, however, the only times I have ever seen women contribute to open source, they were always being paid to do so. I cannot recall a single time that I came across a pull request or even just a regular patch from a hobbyist woman. Not sure why that is, but it has been a constant throughout my career - men do hobby programming and women don&#x27;t.<p>Possibly related anecdata: from my <i>not insignificant, but still far from comprehensive</i> experience nearly all the women who are developers in my area (not SF—I know nothing about that market aside from what I read) are with bigger companies (<i>not necessarily</i> software companies), and in fact there are <i>quite a few</i> women working as developers with those companies.<p>OTOH, startups and small software businesses around here do hire lots of women—but mostly as graphic designers, or in sales&#x2F;marketing, or as project managers. Very, very few women even interview for startup <i>software development</i> jobs here (for whatever reason—I don&#x27;t claim to have an explanation).