Women in Gaming White Papers 84
Many thanks to GameJournalism.com for the heads up on two white papers put out last month by the Women in Gaming Special Interest Group. The two papers (both excellent reads) are Chicks with Joysticks: An exploration of women in Gaming, and Why are there so few Women in Games? In a related topic, TerraNova has a piece on the Women 's Game Conference and MMOGs.
Re:Sex ratio? (Score:5, Informative)
for the US [cia.gov]
Canada [cia.gov]
France [cia.gov]
Japan(though there the ratio roughly stays the same [cia.gov]
For all of these countries, you see that there are a lot more males under 15 than females, but from 15-65 the numbers tend to even out(in the US there are more females than males in this group) But for contrast look at:
China [cia.gov] and
India [cia.gov]
where because of gender selective abortions, there are significantly less females than males in the age 15-65 group. Actually, that is becoming a major concern in those places, as you can imagine what problems a group of males who really need sex can cause.....
Women gamers (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Sex ratio? (Score:3, Informative)
Over in Korea (Score:2, Informative)
Good, good Starcraft players.