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2y ago

There Would Have Been A Woman At Summer Game Fest, But She Couldn't Make It

There Would Have Been A Woman At Summer Game Fest, But She Couldn't Make It

That headline is pretty funny.

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2y ago

There Would Have Been A Woman At Summer Game Fest, But She Couldn't Make It

kotaku.com /summer-game-fest-geoff-keighley-women-diversity-1850553957

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You'd think they'd have more than one woman that they invited to present but I suppose that's too big of an ask for them.
She goes to another school. In Canada.
Almost 50% of the gamers are women... I was wondering why the Summer Game Fest didn't have any on stage.
- I don’t mean to discount your point but I think a more relevant statistic would be for people in game development since it’s mostly creators, not consumers on scene.
  With that said, I don’t think the ratio will be that different for developers and gamers, so maybe this was a pointless comment :D
  
  Mm.. it's a bit different. I'm a female game dev working in one of my country's bigger studios, and I'm one of two women who touches code (aka, software engineer/developer). Out of the whole company of 300 people, there are only 50 women. Most of those are artists, designers, QA, production, audio, HR , or other higher ups in the company.
  It's no secret that they're desperately trying to get more female engineers on board, but there's just a huge shortage of tech talent where I live, and a lot of women are driven off from game dev because of the reactions and treatment that are so typical of the environment. Even getting here, everything has been very male-dominated through my entire career; women in tech just aren't as common for countless reasons.
  I'd love to see statistics for some of the really big companies, actually.
Probably doing her makeup /s
Wow. Finally, woman possibly adjacent to videogame.

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