You would be suprised.

Wishful thinking.

Well, if I remember correctly some women in this website play the Atelier games...

yes, me and 2000cc at least. I love Atelier series, i started last year with meruru and i still play it from time to time. my boyfriend gave me ayesha yesterday (yay) and i'm planning on getting totori for the Vita.

@OP: Best thread you ever created, congratz and respect ;)

Well my Fiance is definitely a "Casual gamer"! XD But ive met tons of girls who play the exact same games as guys. I definitely agree with your sentiment. Though most definitely there are fewer women than men who play "hardcore" games. Then again that depends alot on what types of games you consider "hardcore".

Most female gamers I know are into regular videogames and casual Facebook/iOS style games, I have not really met a single female gamer who is into hardcore gaming at all.

I need to point out that a "Fiance" is always male.

Statistially they don't... but that's because of the extremes of the age spectrum.

Older women AND men are more likely to play facebook stye games and the like... except older women are less adverse to technology then older men.  Having been previously excluded from "how things work" there is less to alienate. 

And well, with kids.   Kids play what their parents get them, and parents often fall prey to gender stereotypes in regards to their kids generally shoehorning them into something that a lot of people find don't fit.

I once saw a girl gamer buying a PS3 with God of War 3. She said she was a huge fan of the series and was buying it just cause of god of war.

This is totally true. It was by the time the game came out and before all this talk about sexism. I remember thinking that she was awesome and i wish i had a girlfriend like that.

This sexism talk is actually coming from girly guys or p***y whipped married man. And that is the fact of it.

My (adult) daughter plays Halo, Gears, Zelda, GTA, but also DDR (but not Just Dance for some reason)

MY niece plays whatever her brother is playing, but also a lot of 'girlie' games like Barble and High School Ghouls but her mom is a big Zelda/RPG fan.

My wife on the other hand plays Just Dance, a bit of Crazy taxi and Four Pics/One Word. To her video games are for children (unless she happens to like it) but I was also of that opinion (for consoles) up until I got a Wii.

In my experience women 30+ are probably just into what folks here label 'casual' but they might be very 'core' into their casual games (IE a couple of the women at work put serious hours into that Simpson App game). Women in their teens and twenties are more likely to play what's considered 'core'. Perhaps because it was something they did with their Dad/brothers. - Any thoughts on that ladies?

Would be interesting to see a study on it.