78% of AI talent is still missing. Women make up just 22% of AI professionals and under 3% of core Python contributors. This repo is the open, growing home of the research behind that number — and the call to close it.

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AI isn't complete without the people missing from the room. This research — the Visibility–Invitation–Mechanism (VIM) framework — is a practical, tested way to close that gap, not just talk about it.

📄 The paper: Unlocking the Missing 78% — SciPy Proceedings, 2025

This research keeps growing every time it reaches a new room. Every talk — every title, every stage — is logged live in TALKS.md.

The organizations already doing this work, all in one place, growing with every contribution: ORGANIZATIONS.md

No sign-up. No form. Just a GitHub account and a pull request.

Full guide: CONTRIBUTING.md

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@article{aftab2025missing78,
  title   = {Unlocking the Missing 78\%: Inclusive Communities for the Future of Scientific Python},
  author  = {Aftab, Noor},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.25080/ncmh8429}
}

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