Hi Twitter friends. We’re so humbled by the response to our developer survey so far, but…we have a problem. Of 2500+ respondents, only 75 identify as women. 1/
We’re committed to publishing a report and sharing the results of what you've all told us, but we really want our sample to be as representative as possible.
So let’s think this through. Since we’re surveying people involved in the software dev lifecycle, 2/
So let’s think this through. Since we’re surveying people involved in the software dev lifecycle, 2/
we should look at the % of women in computing roles - according to @NCWIT it's about 25% ncwit.org/sites/default/…. Among Silicon Valley tech companies that publish data on this, their numbers tend to be more like 10-15% women in engineering right now (At GitLab, it's 9%.) 3/
15% of our current sample would be 375, which we’ve failed to hit. We know it’s clearly not that those women aren’t out there, but that we haven’t reached them yet. We believe that the voices of women in technology should be heard. 4/
Our ask of you is to help us get to 15% female respondents — our dream scenario would be to reach 25%. Can you share with women engineers, PMs, IT execs, etc. on your team and in your life to help us crush this goal and proportionally represent women in our results? 5/
Here’s all the info & a link to the survey: about.gitlab.com/2017/11/17/201… We’re planning on keeping the survey open (and swag giveaway ongoing) until Dec 17. We’ll keep you posted on our progress 🌈 6/6 
