Outreachy: an intern's perspective

That's not what I'm asking about above. I asked whether there's a link to how specifically games are "inclusive", which basically means how women are represented inside games, and the options offered to the player as to what their in-game avatar or character should look like, and women's success in programming. It's not hard to imagine that in the current timeframe, games being male-player-pespective skewed reinforces the perception that computing is for boys, which might be a driver for representation in the field. However, games in the early 1980s were not nearly so codified about player avatars. Women heroes were represented in early videogames, and most early videogames had no gender representation at all, (though they might use themes that are gender-associated such as guns, planes, spaceships, race-cars, etc). Meanwhile, the representation of women among video game players has risen from the 1980s until now, while the representation of women in computer science (according to the NPR data) has fallen.

Therefore it seems overall that the NPR information and what I know about videogames isn't enough to suggest a link, though there may be one anyway.