Survey: Women code better than men!

A research paper published by a group of six students from California Polytechnic State University and North Carolina State University, concluded that the computer code written by women tends to be rated more highly than that written by men.

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However they said Gender bias forces high approval for women’s work if their gender is not mentioned. The team reportedly analysed the behaviour of over a million users of Github, a code-sharing website where users can collaborate, post their work, and have others give them feedback.

Gender disparity exists at all the leading Silicon Valley companies – only 18 per cent of Google’s global technical staff are women and at social media major, Facebook, the figure is just 16 per cent.