Only 2 of the top 200 highest-grossing e-sports stars are women

Competitive gaming is definitely a space controlled by men, and that has led to just a few women breaking into the pro-gaming scene.

Only two women make it into the list of top 200 highest-earning e-sports players worldwide, according to a report from intelligence firm SuperData Research. That is only 1 percent of the top-grossing pros. It’s a significantly smaller percentage than the portion of the e-sports audience that are women. SuperData reveals that men compose 87 percent of the e-sports audience and that women are 13 percent. This means that women represent one in every seven or eight people watching competitions for games like League of Legends or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but for every 100 players that make serious money participating in these events, only one is a woman.