Level up: mulheres em combate: uma análise sobre a participação feminina na indústria dos games

Abstract

In Brazil, for four consecutive years, women are the majority among players, which establishes a social change in what has been agreed for years – that videogame’s market was made up only of men. From this finding, we verified the need to observe, in addition to the gamer public, how female participation happens in the games’ industry today, in other areas related to games. Thus, this paper aims to analyze female participation in this market. For a long time, only men had the opportunity to work in the public ambit of society, as a result, they were responsible for the creation and development of various sectors, including the gaming industry. To understand how female participation develops, we used semi-structured questionnaires among seven women working in the industry to verify if there is gender inequality and prejudice against their participation. It was found out that women still face discriminatory situations, often misogynistic, a conjuncture that reflects old social patterns. Even so, they stay on the market, do what they like, and together they come together for a respectful and egalitarian scenario.