Why all or most audiophiles are men?

@pindac,

I agree with most of what you're saying, and I think a summary would be that women generally like music and don't care about gear, which is why few of them are audiophiles.

"Women are absent in audiophile circles not because they perform worse than the men but because they are downvalued by the men."

@o_holter 

I think that's nonsense. Women do and go wherever they want, and if they wanted to be here they would, just like they crashed the Boy Scouts. 

Women generally hate the look of audio gear in the home and don't see the value in hi end audio. Will that change by any appreciable degree in the near future? I doubt it.

Men like gear and women like shoes and bags. There are exceptions of course.