Tearing-Down Barriers Thursday One

Hello!

Welcome to S.T.E.M. Now's first Tearing Down Barriers Thursday.
(For an introduction to this series, click here).

So, ever heard the myth that boys are better coders that girls? Well, this post will prove that falsity completely wrong.

GitHub reports that women's coding changes are accepted more frequently that their male counterparts. But there's a catch: this only occurred when the names of the programmers were blocked, thus removing gender bias.

When the names were shown, men's program moderations were put into effect at a higher rate than the female's.

So why does this matter? Well, for starters, no one can say women are worse coders. Plus, gender stereotypes exist in our modern world (big surprise).

Resources like the Harvard Implicit Test (mentioned in this series' introduction post) are trying to combat gender biases; yet recent studies show that people recognizing their gender biases is not enough to stop this horrible practice. As humans are social creatures and follow the pact, people must see that others do not hold gender biases for them to change theirs.

In conclusion reader: it is not okay for one gender's work to be discredited, especially when it does not deserve to be so.

See you next week for Tearing-down Barriers Thursday number two!