Women in Gaming
The Entertainment Software Association reports that women make up 44 percent of online gamers, and that 57 percent of their total play time is spent on casual games. -Wired claims "Casual games have definitely made massive inroads into women's free time. Lisa Sikora, of Microsoft's Casual Games division, says women make up 70 percent of their players - up from 20 percent in 1996." [ESA report, Women in Games, Fragdolls]
And Linden Lab Senior Vice President Robin Harper notes that although women comprise only 27 percent of Second Life's population, they log 43 percent of the in-game hours.
And Linden Lab Senior Vice President Robin Harper notes that although women comprise only 27 percent of Second Life's population, they log 43 percent of the in-game hours.
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I'd like to know if there are measurements of time spent on gaming and gender differences. These stats contradict my on the ground experiences with these sorts of things -- and why go for gender parity anyway?
It might be good that women don't get sucked into click and drag, but maintain a deeper connection with the material world, even if this means that we as a gender are "left behind."
i believe that liberation is about not prescribing how men or women should be. Let each one decide for him/her self. It's never _women_ or _men_ who do xyz. It's individuals. The rest is statistics, folklore, and cultural demands. Why reinstate those demands either way?
hey, what about hermaphrodites? how should they act?
I would really like to know where they got their 'facts' from!
I've been online gaming since I was excited about getting my 56k modem, basically. Every type of game on just about every type of platform.
Maybe it was just me being dreadfully unlucky but guys outnumbered girls online by a longshot. I know that's not the most scientific of conclusions but I can't imagine those figures are anywhere near accurate.
anonymous,
who says that these statistics are "prescribing" how men and women "should be."
If you read the gaming industry's studies, they're all about trying to get women hooked on gaming...that's not quite the same thing as saying men should be stay on Mars and women on Venus.
Yeah, what about hermaphroditic gaming? You're just libertarian -- I'm being a skeptic about the gaming stats. As Soong points out, the stats are contradicting all the anecdotal evidence...my conspiracy theory on this is that they're trying to use momentum to get girls to go for gaming!
Good Luck!
i
wasnt sayin that the stats were saying that.
"women should not get sucked into .."
like you siad, why go for gender parity, but why base any of this on sex.
i'm saying let people do what they want for gods sake. i don't need anyone telling me its better to keep a deeper connection to anything based on my sex.
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