Women in Gaming White Papers

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.

Comments

Re:Sex ratio?

[antifoidulus]

Actually, in societies that don't participate in aborting female fetuses(China and India namely) females outnumber males, even though your stat is correct? Why? Because at every age males have higher fatality rates than females. Seriously, look at the demographics of the US from the CIA world fact book:
for the US
Canada
France
Japan(though there the ratio roughly stays the same
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 and
India
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

[Deorus]

They may be less than men, but they exist and form communities.

Re:Sex ratio?

[antifoidulus]

Actually, China's population is expected to crest at about 1.5 billion and then start to drop considerably. China is in a very similiar position as the US with a big baby boom bubble, and low birth rates thereafter, only their boom occured in the 70s instead of the 50's. India however is expected to be the most populous nation on the planet in 20 years or so with about 2 billion people. I think the main reason that India is the place for outsourcing(skilled labor) whereas China is the place for manufacturing(generally unskilled) is because the population of India was much younger when India opened up than the population of China was when it opened up......

Over in Korea

[wrinkledshirt]

Just wanted to say that any person that tries to link computer game affinity to some sort of inherently male or female quality should come over to Korea. Tons of girls playing games here.

Good, good Starcraft players.