The 'sleaze' of computer games

According to the Guardian, women are put off entering the computer games industry by its 'sleazy' image. But telling young women to work backwards and in high heels isn't going to encourage them to enter the industry. We run a computer games design course at the university where I work, and they are all typical geeky nerds, with not one single female student among them. Perhaps we need to run 'women only' courses, and in the long term try and wean men away from 'shoot and kill' games to a wider, family orientated games market. But then again, boys and their toys...