5 Reasons to Get More Girls Playing Minecraft

When kids are young, they tend to play with kids of their own gender. Minecraft, however, brings the boys and girls together. Not to mention the girls give boys some serious competition.

"I would say that the girls are actually outperforming the boys, at least in my class," Stephen Foster, founder of the coding course organization ThoughtSTEM, tells The New York Times of his Minecraft students. "And it's very good to see, because as computer scientists, we definitely recognize that there's a big gender disparity in our field."

Source: Mojang