Gender and Participation in Open Source Software Development
Gender and Participation in Open Source Software Development
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DOI：
10.1145/3555190
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发表时间：
2022-11
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通讯作者：
Hana Frluckaj;Laura A. Dabbish;D. Widder;Huilian Sophie Qiu;J. Herbsleb
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作者：
Hana Frluckaj;Laura A. Dabbish;D. Widder;Huilian Sophie Qiu;J. Herbsleb
开源软件代表了数字基础设施的一种重要形式，也是许多开发人员通往技术职业的途径，但女性在这方面的代表性严重不足。虽然有大量关于开源参与的文献，但对女性开发人员的参与轨迹和贡献经验以及如何与男性开发人员进行比较的了解很少。为了了解他们的加入和参与轨迹，我们对23名开发人员（11名男性和12名女性）进行了采访，他们成为开源项目的核心。我们确定了妇女和男子在最初的贡献和加入过程（例如，妇女参加他们被邀请参加的项目）和持续参与项目的动机方面的差异。我们还描述了妇女贡献者在参与的每个阶段在这种情况下所面临的独特的负面经验。我们的研究结果对开源软件的多样化参与和理解开源作为技术职业的途径具有影响。
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.