Editing Open-source software (section)

=== Disparities ===
Even though programming was originally seen as a female profession, there remains a large gap in computing.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Albusays |first1=Khaled |last2=Bjorn |first2=Pernille |last3=Dabbish |first3=Laura |last4=Ford |first4=Denae |last5=Murphy-Hill |first5=Emerson |last6=Serebrenik |first6=Alexander |last7=Storey |first7=Margaret-Anne |date=April 2021 |title=The Diversity Crisis in Software Development |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9354402 |journal=IEEE Software |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=19–25 |doi=10.1109/MS.2020.3045817 |issn=0740-7459}}</ref> [[Social identity]] tends to be a large concern as women in the tech industry face insecurity about attracting unwanted male attention and harassment or being unfeminine in their technology knowledge, having a large impact on confidence.<ref name=":3" /> Some male tech participants make clear that they believe women fitting in within the culture is impossible, furthering the insecurity for women and their place in the tech industry.<ref name=":2" /> Additionally, even in a voluntary contribution environment like open source software, women tend to end up doing the less technical aspects of projects, such as [[manual testing]] or [[Software documentation|documentation]] despite women and men showing the same productivity in OSS contributions.<ref name=":2" /> Explicit biases include longer feedback time, more scrutinization of code and lower acceptance rate of code.<ref name=":2" /> Specifically in the open-source software community, women report that sexually offensive language is common and the women's identity as female is given more attention that as an OSS contributor<ref name=":3" /> Bias is hard to address due to the belief that gender should not matter, with most contributors feeling that women getting special treatment is unfair and success should be dependent on skill, preventing any changes to be more inclusive.<ref name=":3" />