In a new gender-blind study
a six-person team
of computer science researchers
looked at three million contributions
or "pull requests"
on the repository website GitHub
and found
that when the gender
of a contributor was unknown
a woman's code
was accepted 78.6 percent
of the time
while a man's
was accepted only 74.6 percent
of the time
though women
were more likely
to have their code rejected
when gender was revealed.
Though the results
have not yet been peer-reviewed
what might they indicate
about male politicians
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump
debating which of them
is more pro-restricting abortion rights
and simultaneously
more pro-woman
than the other?
Probably nothing.
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
