#GAReads | Female Representation In Video Games Isn't Getting Any Better

Kait Diaz in Gears 5

“Female Representation In Video Games Isn't Getting Any Better”:

We at Feminist Frequency wanted to see if this handful of high-profile female heroes actually represented a statistically significant shift, or if those of us starving for more and better representation were just seeing what we wanted to see. So we ran the numbers. Looking at every game featured at every major E3 press conference for that year, we found that out of the 76 games featured, only a paltry seven of them centered female heroes—less than 10 percent. Meanwhile, more than three times as many games, over 30 percent of the total, centered male heroes.

Read Anita Sarkeesian and Carolyn Petit’s full article at WIRED here…