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Over the decades, women gained ground, going from 10% representation in orchestras to 35 percent in the 1990s.

That change gave women an edge: They were 50 percent more likely to make it past the first audition if their gender wasn’t known. Instead of hand-picking known proteges, juries listened to candidates playing behind a screen. symphonies began using blind auditions to hire musicians. It’s similar to an experiment that began the 1970s, when U.S. The idea behind the experiment is a simple one: If the identity of a coder is shielded, there’s less opportunity for unconscious gender or racial bias to creep into decision-making processes. The second part is gathering data about how sites like Bugzilla and GitHub work, to see how “blind reviews” might fit into established workflows. The experiment has two parts: there’s an effort to build an extension for Firefox that gives programmers a way to anonymize pull requests, so reviewers will see the code itself, but not necessarily the identity of the person who wrote it. Its first target? The code review process.

Mozilla is kicking off a new experiment for International Women’s Day, looking at ways to make open source software projects friendlier to women and racial minorities.