Beyond the 10%: analysis of the gender-diversity gap

Location: FOSDEM Python DevRoom 2019
Author: Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar
Video Link: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/python_diversity_gap/

Women represents half of the population. The technological industry claims that around 30% of their work force are women. And that percentage decreases down to 20% when focusing on the tech. teams.

If we analyze open source communities, those hardly reach 10% of the population as this is the case of the OpenStack Foundation or the Linux Kernel.

This talk will show previous analysis and data publicly available with this respect, and an analysis of the Python community [1] to compare to.

In addition to that, this talk will provide the steps done up to having the data: retrieving, curating, cleaning and visualizing the information with Python. For this process GrimoireLab, and specifically Perceval [2] was used used for retrieving information. Perceval retrieves information from the usual data sources found in the open source world. Then Ceres [3] is a small library that handle Perceval's data. These are the basics of the technical infrastructure.

[1] https://github.com/python [2] https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval, [3] https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-cereslib

Transcript

1. Beyond the 10% Analysis of the gender-diversity gap Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar @dizquierdo https://speakerdeck.com/bitergia Python DevRoom @ FOSDEM
2. All started in Tokyo...
3. /motivation Extension of previous analysis (focus on CPython) Lack of existing data Transparency and improvement Learn from best practices Ethical and business perspective Involved in CHAOSS D&I
4. /definition Python diversity statement: “some of these attributes include (but are not limited to): age, culture, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical or mental difference, politics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and subculture. We welcome people regardless of the values of these or other attributes.”
5. /context https://blog.pinterest.com/en/our -plan-more-diverse-pinterest http://www.google.com/diversity/ http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/0 6/driving-diversity-at-facebook/ https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-2018-diversit y-inclusion-report
6. /context 11% 10% 8% More data at speakderdeck.com/bitergia 4% [CPython]
7. /architecture
8. /architecture
9. /architecture
10. /architecture
11. /architecture $ perceval git "https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval.git" > [2019-02-01 23:36:59,096] - Sir Perceval is on his quest. > [2019-02-01 23:36:59,102] - Fetching commits: 'https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval.git' git repository from 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00; all branches https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval
12. /architecture { "backend_name": "Git", "backend_version": "0.10.2", "category": "commit", "data": { "Author": "Alvaro del Castillo <acs@bitergia.com>", "AuthorDate": "Mon Apr 25 00:47:22 2016 +0200", "Commit": "Santiago Dueñas <sduenas@bitergia.com>", "CommitDate": "Thu Apr 28 01:31:50 2016 +0200", "commit": "babb8f761a436ea00cac90957afc3d38f0bdc946", "files": [ { "action": "M", "added": "22", "file": "perceval/backends/github.py", [...] "message": "[github] Check and control rate limit in GitHub API queries\n\nThe backend will ch ceck the rate limit. When this rate is\nconsumed, it will sleep until the rate is reset.", "origin": "https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval.git" }
13. /architecture Name Email Nickname Country Other identities Gender https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-sortinghat
14. /architecture Genderize.io as external API $ curl https://api.genderize.io/?name=peter > {"name":"peter","gender":"male","probability":1,"count":4373} https://genderize.io
15. /numbers More context: 2004: ~0% 2014: 2.21% Last year: 4.36% Last year activity
16. /numbers Community last year activity
17. /numbers Women last year activity
18. /numbers Community evolution over time
19. /numbers Geographical distribution last year active people
20. /numbers Geographical distribution last year active women
21. /numbers Last year network analysis of github.com/python CPython Typeshed Mypy
22. /numbers CPython Typeshed Mypy Last year women network analysis of github.com/python
23. /numbers Women as newcomers in github.com/python
24. /comments_n _limitations Gender is not binary Focused on github.com/python Small fraction of what diversity is Only focused on quantitative data Ethics and Accountability
25. /and_now? Forget about the numbers! Clear issue in the industry Glass ceiling of 10% Diversity & Inclusion is a challenge [Permanent & Updated] Data can help to be aware and lead a change Data and tech. are just a tool to achieve our goals
26. /how_to? Cross Foundations Initiative Can we learn from others? Recommendations from OpenStack Policies impact study Collaboration with tech. leaders Bring women to key positions Keep supporting the WOO group Enforce the CoC
27. /further_steps df Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software GMD and Diversity and Inclusion working groups Diversity is a key factor for healthy communities
28. /further_steps OpenStack gender diversity report as example Gender-diversity and mentorship: https://bit.ly/2O08p3j Focus areas: Event diversity Contributor community diversity Communication inclusivity Recognition of good work Leadership Governance Project places.
29. /how_to_contribute Join the D&I Mailing List and introduce yourself Look through the D&I mail list archive for past discussions and self-introductions of people involved. Add to your calendar our weekly meetings on Mondays at 7:30 am PT / 4:30 CET
30. To be continued ...
31. Let’s go for questions! Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar dizquierdo@bitergia.com @dizquierdo