Gender in Games

There is a lot of past conceptions that women are not large fans of video games. This conception has also led to a reduced number of female workers in the gaming industry.

Due to games becoming more popular, everyone is presumed to having access to either a pc or console within their household. If we are to follow a graph that was established back in 2009 then it is believed that on average there is an equal number of women to men gamers. This could have potentially increased upon the previous years and may be even more equal than before.

Also, to develop upon the idea of segregation there is clearly a higher percentage of men in the games industry than woman, especially in the programming section. This is believed that it is stereotyped towards the previous connotations that programming and games are 'nerdy' and 'un-cool'.

Below is two charts, the top one detailing the examples of how many men and women play games and the second being used to display the percentage of male to female workers in the games industry.

 

Also, in another note in relation to women in the gaming industry there is a single idea that a woman by the name of Brandii Grace. Grace is hoping to open up a triple A games studio, and by doing so will offer a woman's experience to gaming. Through this she hopes to create more games that will be emotional and offer more to a gamer than violence and excitement through ideas such as being a divorce lawyer and other similar examples.