Women write better code, study suggests

Computer code written by women has a higher approval rating than that written by men – but only if their gender is not identifiable, new research suggests.

 

The US researchers analysed nearly 1.4 million users of the open source program-sharing service Github.

 

They found that pull requests – or suggested code changes – made on the service by women were more likely to be accepted than those by men.

 

The paper is awaiting peer review.  Read more …..