A common theme, especially from female professionals, is that the lack of female skeptics merely mirrors the difficulty nationwide that organizations, especially groups dependent upon volunteers, have had in maintaining their memberships. I am a member of an active chapter of Association of Women in Science. We have seen our membership wane over the last few years, despite a growing number of professional women in science. Discussing this at our last meeting, someone suggested it is because women now meet other women in the workplace more frequently. Others suggested it is because membership in outside organizations, in general, is declining.
Women think differently than men do.
The last section was the most difficult to condense and summarize since it includes a large number of diverse, typically highly ambivalent often contradictory, views. Men have been calling whatever philosophy they don't agree with 'religion' and blaming it on 'silly women' going back to the earliest of all recorded arguments. . . . Yet at the same time they deny that their real agenda is to hound people on the basis of their belief systems. Maybe women are just too damned sensitive to discuss theories or ideas rationally without implanting their personal emotions into the foray. Another common theme was that women have distinctly different communication styles than men do and that this influences how comfortable they are within the skeptic movement.