Open source is having a significant impact on society in terms of the products it produces and also the career paths that it facilitates.
However, women are vastly underrepresented amongst open source developers. This is a significant concern to these communities because it prevents them from receiving the benefits of a larger talent pool and of team diversity. The problem is perpetuated when women developers miss the learning and professional growth opportunities that open source software projects provide, and are overlooked when open source contributions are used to make hiring decisions.
GenderMag for Open Source ( is an NSF-funded collaboration that aims to break down gender-bias barriers by focusing on the tools and technology used in open source software. The project investigates how open source software tools and technologies incorporate gender biases relating to diverse problem-solving styles; and how to remove those biases.
Speaker Bio
Anita Sarma is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research aims to understand the cognitive processes of humans, and build inclusive technology to help software developers. She has co-authored more than 100 conference and journal articles, and has received numerous awards. She received the OSU Breaking Barriers Research award (2021) for her work in removing gender biases from software. She is a co-director of the GenderMag project.
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