Women Are Better at Coding Than Men as Long as No One Knows Their Gender
But only if no one knows they're women.
A recent study has found that women make better computer coders than men.
A study published in PeerJ found that code written by women is better than that of men's, but it's only viewed that way if no one knows who wrote it.
Only 11.2 percent of coders were female in 2013, but many computer science industry pioneers have been women.
When personal computers were first released, they were mostly marketed to men, which caused the rise in male computer coders.
The study was created under the assumption that people would be overly critical of code written by women, which is very common in all technology industries.
After looking through almost three million pull requests submitted on the open-source software community GitHub, they found that code written by women was approved at a higher rate than the code written by men. Women's code was approved 78.6 percent of the time whereas code written by men was approved 74.6 percent of the time.
Researchers ruled out the idea that women's code was only accepted more often because it was in certain kinds of coding language.
In this study, women actually outperformed men across all of the top 10 coding languages including Java and C.