Gender and Participation in Open Source Software Development

Author:

Frluckaj Hana1,Dabbish Laura2,Widder David Gray2,Qiu Huilian Sophie2,Herbsleb James D.2

Affiliation:

1. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abstract

Open source software represents an important form of digital infrastructure as well as a pathway to technical careers for many developers, but women are drastically underrepresented in this setting. Although there is a good body of literature on open source participation, there is very little understanding of the participation trajectories and contribution experiences of women developers, and how they compare to those of men developers, in open source software projects. In order to understand their joining and participation trajectories, we conducted interviews with 23 developers (11 men and 12 women) who became core in an open source project. We identify differences in women and men's motivations for initial contributions and joining processes (e.g. women participating in projects that they have been invited to) and sustained involvement in a project. We also describe unique negative experiences faced by women contributors in this setting in each stage of participation. Our results have implications for diversifying participation in open source software and understanding open source as a pathway to technical careers.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Sloan Foundation

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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