It comes down to males are generally more interested in things and females are more interested in people. This is why you see more male than female engineers and more female than male nurses.
Lack of Female Representation
So who can explain the near lack of females in our hobby? There are far more women discussing football than audio, by a long shot. There are a lot more women into fixing up their cars as well. I just can’t think of a hobby, other than ours, where representation is so close to zero.