Interactive Selection, the leading games recruiter, has revealed to WIG Jobs the results of a diversity audit to study the gender of the job seekers that have registered with the company over the years. It has never directly asked applicants for this data which would be discriminatory but has made general estimates looking at applicants christian names. In [...]
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Interactive Selection diversity audit of job seekers confirms underrepresentation of women in games.Diane Lagrange and Jen Bolton from ICO Partners (and previously NCSoft Europe) talk to Women in Games Jobs about how they got into games, why they feel women are under-represented in the games industry and how this is hopefully now changing. Gamasutra recently interviewed Carolyn Feinstein, Electronic Arts VP of consumer marketing ,and she stressed that being a woman in the games industry is far from being a disadvantage. Feinstein says ‘Overall, I really think that companies are more successful when they have a diversity of perspective around both creative and business decisions’ and she feels [...] The Sunday Times on 15 November 2009 shows the way! Eleanor Mills, in a thought provoking article titled “The Second Sex”, quotes some great stats: “ These days, outside top City circles, being a man does not signify first-class status. In much of modern life, maleness means coming second. For instance, boys are now less likely than [...] |
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