I feel there's a lot of prejudice concerning female gamers. For myself I had to think again after I meet loads of girls who really rock playing for example Lineage 2, WoW, the Guitar Hero series and other. Of course most of them don't feel any keen pleasure at blowing one's head in a FPS but just because of that it doesn't mean they aren't games. I've been beaten twice by a friend girlfriend in World of Goo :)

Of course in this research we all agree that these women often play card games, but if they were presented with other kinds of casual games they would surely give it a try. I first played Atari's Enduro before I kicked arses in GRID
:)