“They just purge the evildoers and think that they’re OK, not realizing that they’re all complicit and that there’s a culture that devalues women,” said Professor Gray, who studies the gaming industry. She said she wanted to see evidence of companies hiring and devoting resources to diverse candidates. Neither Evo nor Ubisoft responded to a request for comment about specific changes they planned to make. A “culture change” has to start at the top, she said, so she hoped women and people of color would be given more senior roles in gaming companies. “Everyone laughed, because they thought somebody had gotten their wife or girlfriend to come play a prank on everyone,” said Dr. Kocurek, who interviewed Ms. Laurel for a book about her pioneering accomplishments in gaming.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2020 17:59 UTC