Despite the presence of female combatants in games like these, there is still a tendency for game studios to treat female representation as some kind of extravagant goal, rather than simply treating it as standard in the same way they handle male representation. (feministfrequency.com)
The excuse that I hear most often for the absence of female combatants in games is that players wouldn't believe it. (feministfrequency.com)
Nimmi Gowrinathan, in her article entitled «Inside Camps, Outside Battlefields: Security and Survival for Tamil Women,» focuses on female combatants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)