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Implementation plan for the US Research Software Sustainability Institute
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Lack of diversity in research software #86

Open karthik opened 4 years ago

karthik commented 4 years ago

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?

JeffCarver commented 4 years ago

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.

JeffCarver commented 4 years ago

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.

karthik commented 4 years ago

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

JeffCarver commented 4 years ago

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

danielskatz commented 4 years ago

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.

danielskatz commented 4 years ago

Actually, I'll add this to the PR.