Directory of Women Resources

Home > Games > Roleplaying > Roleplaying in Society > Women

Roleplaying (like its immediate ancestor wargaming) has historically been a male-dominated hobby. Efforts to increase female participation in roleplaying have led to discussion of both sexism among gamers and of potentially sexist content in the games themselves.

Resources in This Category

• RPGnet: Chicks in Gaming

  http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/acksep97.html
  Satirizes efforts to encourage women in roleplaying.

• RPGnet: Chicks In Roleplaying And Other Stuff

  http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/guestaug99.html
  A call to accept women gamers.

• RPGnet: The Head of Vecna: Women in Gaming and Other Myths

  http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/collists/vecna.html
  Bi-weekly column by professional game editor Hilary Doda.

• RPGnet: Women in Gaming?

  http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/nov97.html
  Sandy Antunes's satirical report on mixed-gender gaming.

• Women in Gaming Archive

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~acm/WIG/WIGindex.html
  Collected discussions from a sixdegrees.com group.

Related Categories

• Home > Society > People > Women > Recreation and Sports > Gamers

 

Home > Games > Roleplaying > Roleplaying in Society > Women

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us