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Emerson Murphy-Hill on Engineering Productivity, Team Dynamics and Equity

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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Biases in Code Review and Engineering Equity

This chapter explores the biases affecting pull request acceptance on GitHub, particularly those related to gender and age. It discusses how women's acceptance rates improve with anonymous profiling while older engineers experience increased pushback during reviews. The chapter emphasizes the necessity of addressing systemic biases in engineering to promote equity and suggests anonymous code reviews as a potential solution.

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