Also polygon...

>Game Developer magazine's most recent survey showed that in 2011, just under 11.5 percent of game industry employees in the U.S. — across all departments, from quality assurance up through design and production to programming and business — were women. There's a pronounced gender gap in pay, too: The survey showed that female employees' salaries ranged between 67 percent and 90 percent of those of their male counterparts, depending on the field.

>Female game developers also encounter resistance when they point out that many elements in games are designed to cater to heterosexual men.

>Writer Wendy Despain said she wants to pave the way for a better future. "If I can improve the games going out today, the next generation of gamers will be less sexist," she wrote. Game designer Erin Hoffmann said her reason to make games is that "the form, the art, so desperately needs female perspectives."

https://www.polygon.com/2012/11/28/3699422/sexism-gaming-twitter-discussion-1reasonwhy/