Women are under ratedplayers, some just lack the confidence to play live poker at the casino's. when my wife went to play she just played smart and let everyone else make the moves. 80% of the time the men would over bet just to scare her off.
I even read in an article here on CC that there was a "woman's only" poker tourney and 20% of the entrants were men. A man even ended up winning the "woman's only" tourny