User:RiannaNguyen/sandbox

'Women and video games. Throughout the years, the relationship between women and video games has always been a concern within the community. For years women were seen as overly sexualized support characters, along with the negative connotations of girls playing video games. Even though video games have been around for decades, there is still a negative relationship between female gamers and the video game community. In the early 90s, there were a majority of female gamers, yet they were unrecognized by the majority that played games. Games companies had always focused on the idea that only boys play video games while girls play house or dolls, but by the year 2010, the rise of female gamers became more interested in video games; up to 40% are female gamers. Although the number rising of female gamers is increasing, the negative connotation is still the same, mainly associated with sexual harassment, sexism, and how female character are portrayed. These are some of the main problems that most female gamers occurred in games; even though they are also the same ratios of contributions in the video games industry, there have not been any changes to the idea that girls can play video games too.