Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
Games give you a chance to excel.
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.