"Why isn't there as many females here?"

With the question "Why isn't there as many female gamers as there is male gamers?" in mind, I decided to visit video games and role-playing games stores to interview shop workers on why they think the population of gamers is dominated by males:

I met a 31-year-old male Games Workshop clerk who is also a video and roleplay game player, that thought that the reason behind this could be the social acceptability of women and men in society.

https://soundcloud.com/jcbish/games-workshop-a-31-year-old

After the interview he also mentioned that maybe the stereotyping of the males who do play video games could be the main problem which stops females from becoming gamers as they do not want to feel like they will be placed in that stereotype too. 





I also met a male manager of the popular video game store 'Game' who agreed that the games produced are more focused onto the male customers but also said that it shouldn't matter about who the character you are playing is but it should only matter about the plot-line of the game.

https://soundcloud.com/jcbish/the-game-store-40-year-old




Both interviewees mentioned the focus of games being made towards male interests. Maybe, whilst keeping these interests involved we can incorporate 'female' interests also, so the female players and those interested in playing do not feel cut out of these 'plots' and feel out of place within the gaming society.

Also, when searching for workers in the gaming shops I also found that there were no female workers to interview, this could be another reason why the idea of gaming at first look is only seen as a male activity.