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Lack of diversity in research software #86

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karthik opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 6 comments
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Lack of diversity in research software #86

karthik opened this issue Jul 9, 2020 · 6 comments

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@karthik karthik commented Jul 9, 2020

Lack of diversity in research software

Most of this paragraph talks about lack of diversity in open source software. Could you say something here about lack of diversity in research software here? Perhaps the results of the US RSE survey?

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@JeffCarver JeffCarver commented Jul 9, 2020

Yes, hopefully we can add a bit more once we finish the survey analysis. I will go back through what we have already to see if there is anything yet that we can say here.

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@JeffCarver JeffCarver commented Jul 10, 2020

Demographics from the survey:

We also asked participants to self-identify as male, female, other, or prefer not to say. The breakdown of gender identity was Male (n=734), Female (n=267) other (n=4) and prefer not to say (n=36)

We also have something on age. We did not ask about ethnicity.

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@karthik karthik commented Jul 16, 2020

Jeff: Can you draft this as text that can go in the section?

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Addresses #86
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@JeffCarver JeffCarver commented Jul 17, 2020

@karthik please see if this sentence is what you were asking for.

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@danielskatz danielskatz commented Jul 17, 2020

This seems very minimal. We also have data from https://github.com/softwaresaved/international-survey/blob/master/analysis/2017/results_us_narrative.ipynb.

Maybe also add something like:

The 164 US respondents to the 2018 International RSE Survey [@rse-survey] reported being 82% male, 14% female, and 4% preferred not to say. They also reported being 77% white, 11% Asian, 6% Hispanic/Latino, 5% other, and 2% Black. Additionally, 3% reported having a disability.

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@danielskatz danielskatz commented Jul 17, 2020

Actually, I'll add this to the PR.

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