{"id":87140,"date":"2025-08-22T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87140\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:18:09","slug":"inaugoral-girl-gamers-day-launches-in-darwin-to-promote-women-in-esports-and-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87140\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugoral Girl Gamers Day launches in Darwin to promote women in esports and STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video-gaming industry is bigger than the music and film sector combined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And women make up nearly 50 per cent of its participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But where are they? And how can they get boosted to the to&#8230; particularly from somewhere as isolated as the NT?<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lil Watkins went down to the inaugural Girl Gamers Day in Darwin CBD to speak with middle schoolers and The Array CEO Dylan Bennett to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video-gaming industry is bigger than the music and film sector combined.\u00a0 And women make up nearly 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,65061,65062,16750,65063,65064,105,65060,3975,65059,1893],"class_list":["post-87140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darwin-esports","tag-dylan-bennett","tag-esports","tag-girl-gamers","tag-girls-gaming","tag-technology","tag-the-array","tag-video-games","tag-women-in-esports","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}