A report by market research company NPD indictes that 2009 saw a very large increase in the number of female gamers.
While some additional details are provided in the article on Casual Gaming.biz, there is unfortunately not a link to the report. I'm curious about these results in the context of some earlier findings that showed women to be a larger audience than is usually assumed. I would also guess that this repost focuses on the west - although I have no data to support this conclusion, I'm confident that the asian games player base has a much larger percentage of female gamers than the west.
http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/28826/Female-gaming-audience-leaps-up-in-2 009Todd GantzlerFacultySession
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