Final Studies Project Proposal

I think for my final studies project I want to do some research on female gamers. I really want to take a look around for female critics and see what games they are interested in and what games they are playing. I also want to take this further and look at a few games for the Playstation, the Nintendo Wii, the X-BOX 360 and even the Nintendo DS, and see how many games I can find that have female characters as their main characters, compared to the male character dominance. To take that study just a little bit further I thought that I would then look at the games that have a female as the main character and see what the rating is, because I have a feeling that most of those games are for children rather then directed toward the adult female gamer. I am interested to find out what the gamers are thinking and if they have the same opinions as I do, that the gaming world is too controlled by male dominance.