We've talked a lot about women and gender in advertising, movies and TV shows. Something we haven't mentioned are video games.
The video game industry is dominated by men, even though there are many women who also work to create these games.
This article focused on a Twitter discussion on sexism in the video game industry. The discussion was started when Luke Crane, the games project specialist at Kickstarter tweeted, "Why are there so few lady game creators?"
Many women who work in the video game industry responded to his question, using the hashtag #1reasonwhy.
I found it interesting that many of the reasons women gave to Crane's question are similar to ones women have experienced across many professional fields. Women in the gaming industry feel they are treated unequally in the workplace because they have to deal with sexual harassment, their opinions or ideas being rejected, asking for maternity leave and solely working on art for a game and not the computer programming aspect.
Even though the video game industry is fairly new, women still experience old-fashioned inequity in the workplace.
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