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[–] Volt 7 points -7 points (+0|-7) ago 

>implying they have nothing to latch on to

When a woman offered a pull request on an open source project where she was an outsider—in other words, where none of the project leads knew her—her contributions were far less likely to be accepted than ones from outsider men. Far from showing bias against men, this showed a bias against women.

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[–] Volt ago 

It's pretty funny how much my comment was downvoted. Of course it makes sense that it's because of the quality, but they can, and do, explain it away, saying that it's a white male privilege to have the free time to devote to contribute to open source, and to improve their craft. Open source is apparently not a meritocracy for this reason.