Are women over-represented in video games?

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DonFerrari said:

irstupid said:
Sales determine if something is wanted or not. How well games sell determine whether the industry is 10% female lead, 50% or 90%.

But I hate topics like this, especially when talking jobs. Like when you hear stuff like women are under-represented in the tech industry or something. They will say the population is 50% or 55% or whatever it is female, so your workforce should be that % female. Or the population is 20% black, so you should have a 20% black force, ect.

Tell me how that works out when say 90% of the graduates in the IT field are White males or Asians. (made up stats, but the point remains. The percentage of workforce should be based on graduate percentages, not population. Push schools to try to get more diversified students versus businesses trying to meet an unrealistic quota)

You shouldn't even push schools to have more diversified students. Different people have different interest and this "it is all social construct" is silly.

When I say push, I don't mean that a school should limit who it accepts to try and fit a quota, but I mean to try and get recruiters to get those that shy away from a field to consider it.

Say IT and Nursing.

Nursing is dominated by females. I know many nurses and they would love more men in the field. Men are able to help them with lifting heavier stuff, patient moving, stuff on high places, ect. But nursing is not seen as a "manly" job.

IT is the same. It now is seen more as a nerdy male job versus it used to be seen as a female job.

Schools/society/ect need to do their best to try and not "label" jobs as for certain people. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. Too much money is made on labeling people into groups.