[2] Since its inception in the 1990s, as open-source software has continued to grow and offer new solutions to everyday problems, an increasingly diverse user base began to emerge.
Dismissive responses, conflict, and unwelcoming language were respectively the third, fourth, and sixth most cited problems encountered in open-source.
Comparing their results to a meta-analysis of employment sex discrimination conducted in 2000, the authors observed that they have uncovered only a quarter of the effect found in typical studies of gender bias.
This was found by a number of surveys: In an 2013 article for the NPR, journalist Gene Demby considered Black people and Latinos to be underrepresented in the open source software development.
[15][16] Open-source projects and organizations such as Arch Linux, Bitcoin, BonitaSoft, Debian [1], Drupal, Fedora [2], FreeNX, GNOME [3], KDE [4], Mozilla [5], PHP, Ubuntu [6] have or had initiatives directed to women to support their participation.