Gender Diversity and Community Smells: Insights From the Trenches
Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba, Damian A. Tamburri, Alexander Serebrenik, Filomena Ferrucci · IEEE Software · 2019
Given growing attention to gender diversity in software development teams, we asked practitioners if it was a useful tool to mitigate undesirable communication patterns. While many participants didn't consider gender diversity useful in this context, those who did were motivated by their own professional experience.