50% of developers will be women “five to ten years from now”, says Lionhead boss

“I don’t want to sit in a studio full of blokes,” opines Gary Carr.

Here’s a happy fact for you: according to a recent Game Developer Magazine survey, only four per cent of game programmers are women, and those women are generally paid thousands of dollars less than their male compatriots. Evidence that women just aren’t as interested in videogames or the creation of videogames as men? Not really: the Electronic Software Agency suggests that 45 per cent of games enthusiasts are female.

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