Our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
We ass-u-me too much based on people’s genders/photographs/ideas/etc., which taints our objectivity when assessing the quality of their code.
For a close example on Lemmy: people refusing to collaborate with “tankie” devs, with no further insight on whether the code is good or not.
There also used to be code licensed “not to be used for right wing purposes”, and similar.