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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Phys.org has an interesting article on a study from the University of Sussex that found girls to be better than boys at not just the story creation but also the coding involved in creating story-based video games.

Teenage boys are perhaps more known for playing computer games but girls are better at making them, a University of Sussex study has found.

Researchers in the University's Informatics department asked pupils at a secondary school to design and program their own computer game using a new visual programming language that shows pupils the computer programs they have written in plain English.

Dr Kate Howland and Dr Judith Good found that the girls in the classroom wrote more complex programs in their games than the boys and also learnt more about coding compared to the boys.

Now to me, simple under-representation has never been a valid argument for desiring more women in the software design field. Less women also go to prison; should we be trying to solve that? This, however, shows extremely valid and even capitalistic reasons for attempting to get more women into at least the game creation end of software design.