Audiophile demographics?

Theo714:  Thank you!  I had hoped to find that there are female audiophiles.
Girly music?  Well0 I am prejudices but try to improve my outlook, deaspite being somewhat allergic to females.  I am happy to discover an actual lady audiophile.

Aha!  Some interesting responses, and prejudices, are afoot.  Has anyone thought that guys start being able to afford toys at an earlier age, possibly because we can earn more money through better paying summer jobs than girls, or at least could way back in our youth?\  Also, guys need an excuse to invite anyone over. Girls have things built in for this.

Neuro-scientists are still researching cognitive differences XY vs XX causes in the brain. So far, there is great overlap in any Gaussian bell curves of what they quantify. This makes a concept of gender too weak for me to ascribe this difference in interest in audio equipment to genetic differences between men and women. I think it is caused by environmental differences in what roles are assigned to males and females and these roles are purely arbitrary. Many women are engineers notwithstanding gender expectations. The same could happen to audio given the right social environmental conditions.

@danvignau 

"Also, guys need an excuse to invite anyone over. Girls have things built in for this."
What exactly are these built in "things" that women have?

Nice try Duke!   Regardless of gear and bigger and all the macho talk in these tag-ons there is one thing not one man has said about 'watching women or listening to music with women'...in my 70-something years I have never ever  even seen a woman actually 'listen' to music.  Never!  Listening is more than 'catching the lyrics'.  And I am very friendly with many women.  But you can watch them glaze over when you put some Captain Beefheart on the turntable.  I think that is why they tend to more opera with all the visual stimulation and a story of pain and heartbreak.  Women seemed to be more attracted to music videos too.  Ask a woman to close her eyes and have a conversation and see what happens.  Or of course, they jump up and need to dance.  But sit and listen the way my male friends or my adult sons listen; not. 
I think it is far less about expressing emotions and far more about getting your own bad self out of the way and to shut up long enough to 'listen' to music.  $6 ear buds or $60,000 speakers make no difference if you are not a listener and only a 'hear-er'.