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06:53 27th September 2010
There should be more women taking up IT training to join the gaming industry in the future, according to Paulina Bozek, director at start-up games company Inensu.
"I wouldn't agree that the industry is generally hostile to women, not in my experience," Ms Bozek, who came into the games industry seven years ago, said.
She was reacting to a study carried out by University of Liverpool PhD student Julie Prescott on behalf of the British Sociological Association which revealed that four per cent of the sector workforce in 2009 was female, a decline from 2006, when the figure was 12 per cent.
"I have to say it comes as a surprise to hear that figure, because if anything, judging by my personal experience I would have thought the number would be going up, not down," she added.
The expert said she expected the rise of casual games and social games in recent times to have diversified the gaming audience, since there are more people playing games, and "in turn that would have diversified the workforce".
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