GitHub doesn’t ask for gender, yet you assume the 3% figure is accurate. Even if you do, it doesn’t make sense to correlate GitHub contributions with “intrinsi

GitHub doesn’t ask for gender, yet you assume the 3% figure is accurate. Even if you do, it doesn’t make sense to correlate GitHub contributions with “intrinsic” motivation. You can still love to code but not want to contribute to Open Source. Also, what percentage of software engineers regularly contribute to a non-corporate sponsored GitHub open source project? I would bet it is a small number, which means you shouldn’t use it as a proxy to generalize for the industry and gender differences within it.