[game_edu] Implications of students going into a male-dominatedindustry?

[Steven Yau]

"It's about finding ways to detect the reasons behind any imbalance; honestly assessing whether the gender (or race, or whatever) disparity is due to the randomness of statistics or other controllable factors; if controllable, honestly deciding whether these factors are excluding students who would like to learn game dev but choose not to because of the environment we provide." 

Throwing a curve ball here by suggesting that the issue may be further down the chain and kids and school children are exposed to stereotypes of what a male and female do professionally which carries with them all the way up to college/University.

I actually think Anthony and Maria are right regarding role models and having more children aware of the different types of work out there that are available to both genders. 

In regards to the issue of diversity and race, I think the games industry (at least in my experience of the UK) is pretty diverse already with many developers from all countries.

Steven 

On Tuesday, 20 September 2011 at 21:50, Ian Schreiber wrote:


> It's about finding ways to detect the reasons behind any imbalance; honestly assessing whether the gender (or race, or whatever) disparity is due to the randomness of statistics or other controllable factors; if controllable, honestly deciding whether these factors are excluding students who would like to learn game dev but choose not to because of the environment we provide. 


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