On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > I took a look at apparent gender among list participants a few years ago: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-June/280272.html > > Same general thing: very few regular participants on the list were > women. I don't see any sign that that has changed in the last three > years. The bar to participation in the R-help list is much, much lower > than that to become a developer.
I plotted the gender of posters on r-help over time. The plot is here: https://twitter.com/scottkosty/status/449933971644633088 The code to reproduce that plot is here: https://github.com/scottkosty/genderAnalysis The R file there will call devtools::install_github to install a package from Github used for guessing the gender based on the first name (https://github.com/scottkosty/gender). Note also on that tweet that Gabriela de Queiroz posted it, who is the founder of R-ladies; and that David Smith showed interest in discussing the topic. So there is definitely demand for some data analysis and discussion on the topic. > It would be interesting to look at the stats for CRAN packages as well. > > The very low percentage of regular female participants is one of the > things that keeps me active on this list: to demonstrate that it's not > only men who use R and participate in the community. Thank you for that! Scott -- Scott Kostyshak Economics PhD Candidate Princeton University > (If you decide to do the stats for 2014, be aware that I've been out > on medical leave for the past two months, so the numbers are even > lower than usual.) > > Sarah > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Maarten Blaauw > <maarten.bla...@qub.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I can't help to notice that the gender balance among R developers and >> ordinary members is extremely skewed (as it is with open source software in >> general). >> >> Have a look at http://www.r-project.org/foundation/memberlist.html - at most >> a handful of women are listed among the 'supporting members', and none at >> all among the 29 'ordinary members'. >> >> On the other hand I personally know many happy R users of both genders. >> >> My questions are thus: Should R developers (and users) be worried that the >> 'other half' is excluded? If so, how could female R users/developers be >> persuaded to become more visible (e.g. added as supporting or ordinary >> members)? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Maarten >> > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.functionaldiversity.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
