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Discussion on: Why do we have more male applicants than female ones?

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Adrian B.G.

Maybe because there are more males in similar positions? I think is pretty much an industry dominated by them so of course there are more applicants, and more speakers, and more writers and more developer males. Not saying it is good or bad, just stating the facts.

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Maria Michou

Hi, thanks for your answer. Well, I'm not questioning the statistics, that men are indeed more in the IT world and in other places as well. I'm wondering why let's say out of 20 men or even more, the very few women (not questioning the number) will choose your company over another one.

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Adrian B.G.

Oh I see, I read a couple years ago some articles about women in gaming industry, and one of them had some interviews and reached the conclusion that women are looking for different things at the work place, I do not remember the specifics though, maybe I'll search for them.

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Adrian B.G.

I could not found the articles I read but I found some papers, with further research I'm sure you can find a lot more about the topic:

The computer games industry: Women's experiences of work role in a male dominated environment - a paper that touches your question too, for example women care more about a flexible schedule and are more sensitive to relocation.

Gender Balance Research & Development Programme for the Games Industry Report This one is more extensive, collecting more data and gathered also the most common answers from the Recruiters, on why from 1600 applications only a few were female.

I know they are Gaming related papers but I think most of the reasons can be found in Software/IT aswell.

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Maria Michou

Thanks for the articles!