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Robinson's mother's going-away present to her daughter was an MG sports car and a fur coat.

After working in a news agency, she arrived in London in 1967 as the first young female trainee on the Daily Mail. On leaving school, Robinson chose journalism over training for the theatre. The family spent their summers on holiday in France, often at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes. She was hired as a chicken gutter and saleswoman during the holidays in the family business, before taking office jobs at a law firm. She inherited the family market stall in Liverpool and transformed it into one of the largest wholesale poultry dealing businesses in the north of England.īrought up initially at the family home in Crosby, Robinson attended a private Roman Catholic convent boarding school in Hampshire, Farnborough Hill Convent, now known as Farnborough Hill. When she came to England, she married into her husband's family of wholesale chicken dealers, and sold rationed rabbit following the Second World War. Her mother, Anne Josephine ( née Wilson), who was an alcoholic, was an agricultural businesswoman from Northern Ireland, where she was the manager of a market stall. Of the 15 speakers at Square Enix's event, only two were women, and only two of the 17 speakers at Bethesda's press conference were women.Robinson was born in Crosby, Lancashire, on 26 September 1944 and is of Irish descent. That's not great, but it's also worth noting that the ratio was especially bad at some events. This year, across the events we surveyed, women made up a mere 21 percent of speakers and presenters.

It's also crucial to look at the actual human beings who represent the industry, who get to come out on stage at E3 and be a face and a voice for what the future of gaming holds. More and better representations of women remain an essential part of the change we hope to see in the videogame industry, but we can't focus entirely on the games themselves. Games can and often do center women while also reinforcing harmful stereotypes or turning those women into sexual fantasies for the benefit of straight male players. The mere fact that Youngblood's protagonists are women is no guarantee whatsoever that those representations will be good ones. It's also essential to note that the raw numbers say nothing whatsoever about the quality of these representations. On the other hand, every player who comes to a game such as Wolfenstein: Youngblood must step into the shoes of a female character in order to play. A male player who is more comfortable with experiences that center men can and will simply play as men in games that offer him the choice. However, it's fundamentally different from being asked by a game to take on the role and experiences of a specific character. And of course, as a general trend, the freedom to choose or create your own character is a welcome one. It's true that the number of games in which you either control characters of different genders or get to choose the gender of your hero character significantly outstrip those with established male or female protagonists. Meanwhile, more than three times as many games, over 30 percent of the total, centered male heroes. Looking at every game featured at every major E3 press conference for that year, we found that out of the 76 games featured, only a paltry seven of them centered female heroes-less than 10 percent. We at Feminist Frequency wanted to see if this handful of high-profile female heroes actually represented a statistically significant shift, or if those of us starving for more and better representation were just seeing what we wanted to see. And gang leader Evie Frye shared top billing with her twin brother Jacob in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. Sony showed off Aloy, the formidable huntress star of Horizon: Zero Dawn. EA revealed that women's teams would finally be playable in the next entry in their annual FIFA soccer series.

The spry swordfighter Emily Kaldwin appeared as a playable character in the stealth action sequel Dishonored 2. Microsoft's press conference that year featured a game called ReCore, starring a woman named Joule who explores a desolate world accompanied by a trio of mechanical companions. News stories celebrated women taking on "stronger roles" in videogames and heralded "the rise" of women gamers. If you do an online search for "E3 2015 women" today, what you'll find is that many did feel that year's expo represented a kind of turning point.