Are women over-represented in video games?

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MrWayne said:

Kristof81 said:

Could you elaborate one that? 

Ok i will use my home country, Germany, for examples in my argumentation .I guess that's fair, Germany is good example for an average western State.

First, I would like to question the "long" in your comment and therefore we have to look into history.
Germany was one of the first European states to introduce universal women's suffrage in 1918. Other European countries introduced it much later, France in 1944 and Switzerland in 1971 (in some regions not until 1990). Until 1957, women in Germany were not allowed to own their own bank account without the permission of their husband. In perspectiv, my grandmother was born in 1950. Up until 1977 women in Germany were only allowed to work if their work didn't interfere with their duties as housewives, a similar restriction for men didn't exist. In perspective, my mother was born in 1971.
The German laws today treat men and women very equally, but you see, it is only a few decades ago where this wasn't the case. So i wouldn't call this period of equality "long", especially compared to the thousands of years of inequality before.

 

Let's take the next step and question if the inequality is actually "gone". So far I only talked about laws but the reality of our society is more than just laws. So let's take a look into the major intitutions who have the power to form our society(religion, politics and economy) and the influence of women in those institutions.

a) religion
Although the influence of religions in our western society has faded quite a bit, it is still there and in many of these religions women are not allowed to take religious leadership at all and in those in wichwomen are allow, they are heavily outnumbered by men.

b) politics
In the current German parliament, 30.7% of all seats are filled by women.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article169078778/Diese-Fraktionen-haben-den-geringsten-Frauenanteil.html

the amount of female members in every major german political party is as follows(from 2009)

B’90/Die Grünen [5]	38,2 %
Die Linke	37,0 %
SPD	31,2 %
CDU	25,5 %
FDP	22,6 %
CSU	18,9 %

note, CDU and SPD have by far the most members, so their percentage weights heavier.

c) economy
only 7,3% of all top manager in the biggest german companies are female.

http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/karriere/frauen-in-dax-vorstaenden-ey-studie-zaehlt-50-frauen-und-636-maenner-a-1186921.html

 

If a group has less amount of powerful members who can influence the society than another comparable group, it's called inequality. We still have a long way to go before we have true gender equality.

That's one way of percieving equality the left/social conviction that social equality equals the equal of outcome construct.

The liberal perception follows the line of thought that societal equality equates equality of oppurtunity, which is quite well established. A women can reach great places of power within Germany, hell Merkel is probably Europe is most influencefull and powerful person.

Also there are also fields like education and healthcare where man are in the minority, should those change to to reach gender equality in your perception.