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Gaming Tries To Shed Boy's Club Image @ MSNBC
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Gaming Tries To Shed Boy's Club Image @ MSNBC
   

Though it is a general topic for discussion (as opposed to being specifically RPG-related)...MSNBC Columnist Tom Loftus unveils his compelling <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5113554/" target="_blank">discourse</a> on the growing number of female game creators...
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<br><blockquote><em>No one knows the exact number of women involved in creating or producing video games. Jason Della Rocca, program director for the International Game Developers Association estimated that women make up 10 to 15 percent. Ten years ago, he said, the number was 1 to 2 percent.
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<br>It's an improvement, but according to Della Rocca, "the sad thing is that the median is probably much lower. That is, many studios have zero to 1 percent women, whereas companies like Maxis with 40 to 50 percent help bring up the average."
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<br>And, in retrospect...
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<br><blockquote><em>So, in the years to come, thanks to social and technological forces, the game industry's reputation as a boys' club may be as out-dated as a copy of "Frogger."
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<br>Does this mean that future E3's will have G-stringed men gyrating alongside the "booth babes?" That's one trend I prefer not to think about.
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Post Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:00 am
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There will be large numbers of female game developers right about the same time they make the Olympics co-ed and women learn how to orient and read common road maps.

This marxist agitprop comes out at regular intervals once a year, telling us that the reason females don't perform at the same levels as males in computer programming and design is that they were forced to play with Barbies when they were little when the boys got GI Joes.

Let's all grow up and try to get back to a reality based perspective instead of this mass media gibberish.
Post Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:03 am
 



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