TAF PUBLISHING

This paper analyses how women in online gaming are essentially treated and seen through online games, video game culture, and within the gaming community. As an industry, online games have seen exponential growth and have become increasingly diversified over the past decade, especially in esports, which includes competitive online gaming. Despite this, it is still stereotyped as a male activity. With that being the case, a survey was handed out to female respondents to understand how marginalized women really are in online gaming and about the gender differences in the video game industry and how exactly that affects women. The results following the survey showed that women are, in fact, treated very differently than men, which oftentimes includes harassment and misogyny.