Girls in gaming - what do you think?

Putting Maimai aside for one moment (not really mai, we've kept the land-mines and laser trip wires in place around your personal gaming suite), we are generally a guild of lads and while we'd love to have a few more female gamers join us (heck, some of the female guild characters could have real women behind them rather than guys playing girls!), its quite unlikely that we'll get many more on board even after launch.

This got me thinking about the gaming industry and women in general and why we don't see more girl gamers. Sure, most of us know at least one or two girls who do play computer games, but most aren't gamers in the will-play-for-over-8-hours-a-day-and-not-notice-they-should-have-gone-to-sleep-5-hours-ago sense. There are some out there, but they're a rarity. With more casual games flooding the market in the last 10ish years women are starting to join us in this predominanty male-dominated hobby and I thought it would be fun to see what people thought about this.

A friend of mine recently showed me a 10min video discussion which I found really interesting. Some of the info brought up is well thought out and very perceptive.

Check it out: