I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?
I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?
Of the apps that did have gender-identifiable characters, 98 percent offered boy characters. What shocked me was that only 46 percent offered girl characters. Even worse, of these 50 apps, 90 percent offered boy characters for free, while only 15 percent offered girl characters for free. Considering that the players of Temple Run, which has been downloaded more than one billion times, are 60 percent female, this system seems ridiculous.