Men are NOT better than women at video games: Gender has no role in ability, girls just spend less time playing, says study

A long-standing gender stereotype has been that men are better than women at computer games. Dr Cuihua Shen, from the University of California, and Dr Rabindra Ratan, from Michigan State University, conducted a study to understand whether men pick up video games more quickly than women. The pair explained the results of their study in an article for The Conversation. Although women now make up almost half of all video game players, the gaming community remains, in some ways, hostile toward women. There's also the long-held stereotype that men are simply better gamers than women The researchers set out to examine whether men really make better gamers than women and what drove the gender performance gap.