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Crave’s Game Revolution has some commentary on a Gamasutra survey of average industry salaries, but they go on to make one point very clear:
There’s still a bit of gender income disparity. With slight to moderate percentage differences between men and women still existing in the modern workplace, one has to wonder why and how this sort of thing happens. How indeed do women get paid less than men in the same sort of position(s)? Or how does a man receive a job over a woman if both have the same experience and/or qualifications? How are those decisions made in the offices of HR departments across the world? Are there people out there who will actually sit down and say to themselves “Gee, I think today I’ll pay Alexandra 17.75 per hour while I pay Richard 18.40 an hour! Because men are better at what they do and they’ll do what I say more often!”? That was simply a made up example, but my mind really has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find some plausible “motivation” for subjecting women to earning less in the workplace.
I think it’s a problem that needs to be overcome as soon as possible.
For some numbers, specifics, more on the story, and the survey, head on over to Game Revolution.
