You first have to break down the stat. What percentage of women who play games play their games on consoles/steam/orgin vs. mobile vs. facebook? If most of the women players fall in the latter two categories, it makes sense that they would not come to gaf. Gaf does not really focus on those two categories.
I suppose. My wife plays nothing but Marketplacewhatevermymarket on Facebook and candycrush and she wouldn't be remotely intersted in people talking about video games. She doesn't really participates in forums in the first place.
Then again I play kongregate daily but thats not usually what I talk about in here. Mostly I talk about the Philippines and my wife ;p
My best guess? Possibly due to how the two sexes usually express themselves. There may be a way in how forums are that tend to attract males in the way we express ourselves and for females there may be a different outlet.
I'd be interested to see the breakdown between male and female Livejournal (do people still use that?) users or instagram.
Again from another perspective, my wife expresses herself via Facebook. She used to use IRC back in college but has no interest in real time communication. She'd prefer to skype with people one on one rather than be in a "crowd". Again its a poor sample size but it helps put some perspective for me. Granted its going to be different for everyone else, male or female, but I'm genuinely curious if that would have anything to do with the way the numbers fall.