60 Minutes has a story about computer game pros going to tournaments.

[FloridaPat]

All men. Or rather boys and male children. No women. I don't see any need for brawn in handling a computer mouse and key board. Any one know why women are doing any of these tournaments?

[alarimer]

1. Because they have better things to do?

But I have noticed the marketing for video games is male-oriented. Hence all the scantily-clad, over-endowed women characters. But games marketed for girls, especially, are so stupid no girl I know would ever want to play them. I play video games, just not very seriously. I tend not to finish games, but instead get stuck somewhere in the middle and give up.

[ZombieNixon]

2. Computer gaming is a *grossly* male-dominated er..."profession."

(NOTE: I'm in computer game development, yet I'm still reluctant to call the people who play my putative products "professionals.")

It's something the industry has just now started to remedy: making more games that would have a broader appeal to women.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

3. There are some professional female gaming teams

Odd that the feature didn't mention, represent or talk to them...

(Or discuss the issue of why females are heavily outnumbered in the field...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3496963.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frag_Dolls