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as leshow deleted their comment (edit: I can see it again) i'll explain:

* facebook got criticism for not hiring enough women as coders.

* facebook hired more women (probably lots of junior coders)

* they do what junior coders do

* someone turned the code review rejections into a spreadsheet and disregarded seniority (experience mainly), and made the issue about gender.

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What about studies of GitHub showing that pull requests are rejected more often when the contributor is known to be female?

Or, to put it another way: when contributors are anonymous and genderless, work by women is accepted at the same rate as men?

The Github results were based on the assumed gender of submitters based on things like having female anime character avatars and "female sounding" usernames. I would posit that methodology as highly flawed.

are what is 'code', maybe they were just textual changes (eg adding a contributor covenant)

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