Paper | Gender Diversity Improves Open Source

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A recent study from late September this year seems to indicate that open source projects with higher gender diversity have lower risks of dropout from their members. From the abstract:

Most notably, we find that developers, especially women, who collaborate with other women experience significantly lower dropout risk, with hazard rates up to 20.7% lower.

Full paper by Tielin Katy Yu et. al. (open access): Connected to Stay: Gender Homophily and Its Role in Open-Source Software Developer Retention