Where are all the female adventure climbers?

I've been thinking about male-female differences in rock climbing recently and there is a gap I've noticed and I'm wondering if others agree it's real and if so why.

It seems these days the gender ratio of climbers at the gym, bouldering, and sport climbing is very close to even, and that's great. Amongst trad climbers I've noticed there's definitely a higher number of men in the mix but there's still a healthy amount of women. However, when it comes to "adventure climbing" (loosely including single pitch route development, climbing unknown formations/walls/routes, exploring new areas, climbing choss) I struggle to think of even a handful of women I know out there regularly getting after it. Simply put, where are all the female adventure climbers?

Obviously the portion of people "adventure climbing" is a very small part of the climbing community to begin with, but I would estimate that it's a genre that has at least 90% male participants. What more it seems that the few ladies I do know who are into these activities are with male partners, and it appears the men are often the ones who had the idea in the first place for whatever they're getting up to.

Clearly there are women doing this (you could probably list off a few big names), but if you think of your local community of route developers, etc., what percentage are women? I've been climbing almost 10 years and average 100 days outside a year (just trying to communicate that I don't live under a rock), and have lived in 3 different Western towns that all have vibrant climber communities, yet I've noticed this trend across all of them.

I do not believe that women lack a desire or new ideas for unknown "adventure climbs", but then why aren't there more out there doing it?

Interesting question. No answers on my part except an observation.
Slightly over half of my climbing time is spent with female partners.
While they will do Alpine, Desert Towers, etc, they are less inclined to pursue choss or new routing than my male partners. By that I mean unlikely to suggest it and also unlikely to agree to make a plan to do it.
My choss-jocky and FA pals are predominantly men.
I can imagine asking my female partners why they are less inclined, but I suppose you can just flip that on its head and ask why the men are more inclined. And nobody, for lack of having both minds, can really say objectively. But it does seem to be a trend.

C19H28O2

Christian wrote:C19H28O2

I have known many. Pretty obvious why you don't see them on the MP boy's club.

Christian wrote:C19H28O2

Climbing friend,

Perhaps you have horrible stench of the armpits, and they simply would not be adventuring with you.