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Women code better

Computer code written by women receive higher approval rating than the code written by men - but only if their gender was not disclosed, according to the researchers at California Polytechnic State University and North Carolina State University in the US. The researchers analysed the behaviour of software developers on GitHub, one of the largest open-source software communities in the world. But the giant repository of code, with a community of more than 14 million people, does not request gender information. The researchers were able to obtain the gender by tracking the social network of the users.

Vivek Prakash, cofounder of HackerEarth said women programmers tend to be very calculative and methodical in nature, and are good at analysing and breaking down a large problem into small parts.

 

“Women engineers are sensitive to design, interaction and the user experience,” said Mr. Prakash, an alumnus of IIT-Roorkee.

 

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