Are women over-represented in video games?

[DonFerrari]

irstupid said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

I never had a male engineer going to my school to make boys desire the career. And I find it obnoxious that people really change that much on their perception "due to inclusiveness", I have seem more harm on the shoeharned attempts to be more diverse than positive sales increase for the new public that are now represented. I didn't mind playing alien, animal, female, black, etc etc etc nor did I get any extra pleasure playing white male. The sole incentive I could say I had to follow my career was that my father had a good wage as engineer gone administrator, plus wanting the most difficult admission process in the country.