Lack of Female Representation

The dearth of females into our hobby is something I've thought about for years, even posting about it on this site. Women don't appreciate music any less. But when it comes to the gear, they don't seen to care. The WAF (wife acceptance factor)  has become a long-running joke. Maybe it's for the same reason that fields such as engineering have only recently been open to and attracted more females. Perhaps years of socialization are at work here. Women were either discouraged and/or intimidated by what they perceived as too technical to pursue. I've yet to have either a girlfriend or wife to care much about my gear. These were smart women (my first wife had an IQ of 155). The gear just held little or no interest for them.   

@ghasley

My God, at least he answered the question rather than attacking someone. And for the record, I agree with ncbassplayer. 

My wife couldn't be more different than me, in culture, religion, politics or interest. She is all woman and understands we have different hobbies. I help her with her plants, vintage furniture, learning woodworking and watching murder mysteries while she tolerates my (ugly to her) music system. 

She does, however, love the sound but it isn't something she sits and listens to so we have smaller systems in the garage and yard for her to enjoy while doing stuff. I recently bought her an AirPod Mini system for the bathroom/ closet and she is in love with the looks AND sound.

My wife enjoys our system as much as I do. She doesn’t care much about the gear though and isn’t happy about the $$$ spent to get it. 

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. 

In this country women got the vote a hundred years ago. Think about that for a moment.
 
Systemic sexism exists despite MC's love of the "divine individual." His argument drips irony and lacks historical context, not to mention him parroting party/media thinkspeak. 

More women would be interested in audio gear if cultural and educational bias was addressed.