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July 25, 2005
Programmers: Video Games Need Female Touch
Here's a pretty good AP story about women working in the game development world and the challenges they face. Case in point:
Tammy Yap, a game programmer for six years, once asked that of a colleague -- after all, the skimpy clothing and exaggerated body parts might offend some women, she told him. His response: "What difference does it make? Women don't play video games."
The article sidetracks into the current Grand Theft Auto controversy, but has some interesting stats, like how 10-percent of software engineers are women, but in the game programming field, the number falls to 4-percent.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050723/ap_on_hi_te/game_girls
Posted by gamegal at July 25, 2005 12:30 PM