despite the demands for change from the feminist world.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/sites/computerworld.com/files/u28/women2.jpg
http://blogs.computerworld.com/it-careers/21993/women-computer-science-visual-trendline
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html
When one looks at computer science in particular, however, the proportion of women has been falling. In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent.
Since 2005 that percentage has fallen into the teens.
This is the pool of people that the game developers are drawing from. It just doesn't make sense to expect the % of women game developers to increase significantly in the next few years if the pool they are drawing from for new talent has seen the proportion of women decline by about a third since 2000 and about half since the 80's.
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