Finally the question as to why women aren't as highly regarded as men as gamers has been answered, and the reason is...as it turns out men are more likely to get addicted to games than women. So you see, game companies know they can't easily get a woman addicted, so they focus on men instead. The answer is solved! Okay, that's probably not the truth, but it is a roundabout way of saying that men are more likely to get addicted to games than women.

From the article:

A Stanford University researcher claims that men are more likely to develop a video game addiction than women.

As reported by Palo Alto’s KCBS-AM:

A first-of-its-kind imaging study showed that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more active in men than women during video game play, said senior research scientist, Dr. Fumiko Hayft.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com