Are women over-represented in video games?

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DonFerrari said:

irstupid said:

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.

Scouting should be done for the best independent of where they are or how they look. So that is all the school should do.

That is still not what I'm saying.

By scouting I mean sending say a female tech person to talk to kids in middle school about her job. The fact that she is female will encourage girls to want to pursue that career. She is not actively telling women to be tech people or preventing boys from pursuing the career, but she is motivating females by letting them see someone like them doing that job.

Or if a male nurse came to talk to the students. He does not need to push any agenda, or talk about being a male in the field, or bring up anything related to his gender or race or anything. But like everything, people tend to associate with others like them, so seeing another male being a nurse will make those middle school boys not see the nursing profession as a female only field and they may pursue that field.

It's more of the scouting by leading. If say a male nurse came to talk to 100 students split evently among males and females, by the end of the speech, I would bet that more boys would likely say they may become a nurse than if a female nurse had come and spoke instead.