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    WSJ: Facebook rejects female-authored code more often than male

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    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    05.02.2017

    Facebook has been accused of issues with bias before, but that was about suppressing conservative political views. Today's allegations run into sexism territory. But rather than being something surface-level seen explicitly by its users, the Wall Street Journal reports that back-end code written by female engineers is rejected more often than work by males by 35 percent.