Couple of weeks ago I tweeted about some wholly unscientific "research" I'd done. (With much thanks to Jennifer Hodgdon for suggesting a methodology to get at this data quickly)
@adainitiative just crunched numbers for Drupal.org 14% of accounts identify as female. 33% of core committers are women.
— kattekrab (@kattekrab) November 17, 2012
This morning I spent some time going over that again for Jane Wells from Wordpress so we could compare notes, and so The Ada Initiative can reference it.
Every Drupal.org user account profile has a Gender field in the "personal information" section. Users can choose male, female, transgender or other from a pull down field - or not select anything at all. It's not required.
There are 20 results on each page, except the last page, which lists the remainder results not divisible by 20, I've discarded the remainder out of simple laziness about doing sums. So... with all that as a big fat caveat - here's the numbers.
Male 3104 x 20 = 62,080
https://drupal.org/profile/profile_gender/male?page=3104
Female 518 x 20 = 10,360
https://drupal.org/profile/profile_gender/female?page=518
Other 9 x 20 = 180
https://drupal.org/profile/profile_gender/other?page=9
Transgender 2 x 20 = 40
https://drupal.org/profile/profile_gender/transgender?page=2
Total number of Drupal.org user accounts = 907,869
Which means roughly 8% of accounts have identified their gender. So the number of people that have chosen to identify their gender at all is relatively small.
72,660 ÷ 907,869 = 0.0800 x 100 = 8%
But from those who have...
85.45% male
14.25% female
0.25% transgender
0.05% other
Other data to collect...
T-shirt preference / Conference attendance
We generally don't ask people their gender when they register for a conference, so we've got no direct way of knowing - but you can get a rough percentage from the number of women's size t-shirts ordered. I don't have this data, but I will contact the DA events team and see if we can get a snapshot. Note though: It's very rough. Many "women's" shirts, are actually "girl's" shirts - and don't fit mature women who fall outside the fashionable body shape. [*]
User groups and meetups
It's pretty easy to tell how many women there are in a group of 10-50 people. Contact 10 user groups as a starting sample and get them to note gender turn up for three meetings, and average it. Then see if it's feasible to widen the sample and get 100 groups to do it.
The number of women at the Melbourne Drupal Meetup ranges between 2 and 7 which generally attracts around 15-30 people on average.
Core committers
These six people have access to directly submit patches to Drupal Core.
Dries Buytaert - project founder.
Gabor Hojtsy - Drupal 6 maintainer
Angela Byron* - Drupal 7/8 release manager
David Rothstein - Drupal 7 maintainer
Nathaniel Catchpole - Drupal 8 release manager
Jennifer Hodgdon* - Documentation and coding standards
so... two out of six people with direct commit access to Drupal core are women or 33.33333%
People who contributed patches
http://drupal.org/profile/profile_drupal_patches?page=259
259 x 20 = 5180 % 907,869 = 0.57% of accounts on Drupal.org
People who contributed modules
http://drupal.org/profile/profile_drupal_module_developer?page=350
350 x 20 = 7000 % 907,869 = 0.77% of accounts
And just for context...
National diversity?
United States (pop'n 311 mil)
D.O accounts 278,720 (30%)
United Kingdom (pop'n 62 mil)
42,540 (4.7%)
India (pop'n 1,241 mil)
71,220 (7.8%)
Australia (pop'n 22 mil)
17,320 (1.9%)
China (pop'n 1,344 mil)
16,660 (1.8%)
Indonesia (pop'n 242 mil)
16,960 (1.8%)
Brazil (pop'n 196 mil)
14,940 (1.6%)
other random data for curiosities sake:
Community survey results
http://drupal.org/node/1399056
But - no gender question there.
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Comments
Nice stats! I also find
Nice stats! I also find MAINTAINERS.txt an interesting one for gauging gender diversity within the core development team, since core commiters make up such a small subset of the overall leadership structure of core. This file documents people who are (or in many case were .. parts of it are fairly out of date) chief drivers / points of key knowledge within major core subsystems.
http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/8.x:/core... shows 7/60 maintainers are women, which is more like 11%. However, a couple of those women (Jacine and Jen Simmons) really aren't involved in Drupal anymore (but neither are a bunch of the guys). OTOH, other women (for example, YesCT, jenlampton) have also stepped up quite a bit in Drupal 8 and should likely be listed in some capacity here (but same for the guys :)). I'll fie an issue to try and bring the contents of this file up to reality, so we can have some meaningful stats. :)
Here's the list of everyone in that file, in alphabetical order by last name. Women are denoted by * instead of - next to their names. I've also made a note of their countries (from memory, so there might be a few mistakes) to pull geographical diversity, which breaks down to:
North America: 58%
US: 31/60
Canada: 4/60
Europe: 40%
France: 4/60
Germany: 4/60
UK: 4/60
Belgium: 2/60
Netherlands: 2/60
Sweden: 2/60
UK: 2/60
Austria: 1/60
Hungary: 1/60
Italy: 1/60
Romania: 1/60
Asia/Pacific: 2%
New Zealand: 1/60
Taiwan: 1/60
Back a couple of years ago, I also researched some DrupalCon speaker gender breakdowns, which you can find at http://groups.drupal.org/node/92759. It hasn't been updated since London, but some decent info there, hopefully.
LOL, effing markdown... Let's
LOL, effing markdown...
Let's do it this way then. The women listed in MAINTAINERS.txt currently are:
Here is said issue:
Here is said issue: http://drupal.org/node/1854480
Also, I think I missed some folks in my above figures so please ignore those stats until that issue is marked fixed. ;)