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@fosdem Now for some numbers.

Women are about 9.8% of OSS contributors; only 5% of projects have women as core developers.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.08777

The Covid 19 pandemic had a huge impact on female public code contributions.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07278

For women who aren’t project insiders, acceptance of PR's falls from 71.8% to 62.5% when their Github profile made their gender identifiable. Aka documented bias.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/gender-bias-in-open-source-coding-may-be-tech-s-latest-setback

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These stats don't even mention other intersectionalities based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ableness, etc, which are equally impactful.

The FOSS ecosystem might be missing out on incredibly talented contributors.