Nice graph, Scott, thanks!Based on your code I plotted not the absolute numbers but the ratios, which show slowly increasing relative participation of female Rhelpers over time (red = women, blue=men, black=unknown). After a c. 5% female contribution in 1998, this has grown to about 15% now. At this rate we'll reach parity around AD 2080.
My code:
if (!require(gender)) {
library(devtools)
install_github("scottkosty/gender")
library(gender)
}
rHelp <- rHelpNames
rHelp[is.na(rHelp$gender), "gender"] <- "unknown"
yr <- unique(rHelp$year)
helpers <- list(dates, M=rep(0, length(yr)), F=rep(0, length(yr)),
unkn=rep(0, length(yr)))
for(i in 1:nrow(rHelp))
{
j <- which(yr == rHelp$year[i])
gender <- rHelp$gender[i]
if(gender == "M")
helpers$M[[j]] <- helpers$M[[j]]+1 else
if(gender == "F")
helpers$F[[j]] <- helpers$F[[j]]+1 else
if(gender == "unknown")
helpers$unkn[[j]] <- helpers$unkn[[j]]+1
}
plot(yr, helpers$M / (helpers$M+helpers$F+helpers$unkn), type="l",
col=4, ylim=c(0,1), ylab="proportions", yaxs="i")
lines(yr, helpers$F / (helpers$M+helpers$F+helpers$unkn), col=2)
lines(yr, helpers$unkn / (helpers$M+helpers$F+helpers$unkn)) Cheers, Maarten On 25/11/14 12:11, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
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.
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