Shelly Palmer

#1reasonwhy: the hashtag that exposed games industry sexism

#1reasonwhy

The treatment of women in and by the video games industry has been a hot topic for most of the year – and for the last couple of days in particular. Hot on the heels of an Edge feature bemoaning and exploring the gender disparity in the video game industry, yesterday, women took to Twitter to talk about precisely why that might be. It started out with game designer and Kickstarter games specialist Luke Crane, who asked a deceptively simple question on Twitter: why are there so few “lady game creators”? Read the full story at The Guardian.