Video games were marked as boy’s toys at least in the US, so up until the smartphone women’s only point of entry was like through having older brothers. And yeah sexism.

Many would understandably not reveal their gender with how toxic or creepy that many online gaming spaces are.

Only from personal experience I know a few who are much better than me at strategy, action adventure or fighting games.

Obviously there is nothing inherent in video games that would make women magically suck at playing them.

It’s mostly the second one you mentioned, that they have to deal with an uphill battle against sexism. Ask any woman what happens if they play an online MP game and dare to speak on voice chat. Same goes for things like STEM fields. I will note that in my country it is much more accepted for there to be women gamers and consequently they have to deal with less prejudice/there are more of them (though it isn’t perfect).

I do suck at skill based games, like shooters and whatnot. A lot of women I know play mobile games or just single player action games, so that’s why you don’t hear much about it maybe.

As a gamer, I disagree. That might have been true back in the 90s and early 2000s, but right now the gamer population is more or less evenly represented gender-wise.

Also, it’s ridiculous to claim there’s a lack of interest, especially in this day and age. The number of gamers has been increasing exponentially, as well as the number of games being released every year.

Your bias might also stem from the types of games you are looking at. Some games are preferred by boys and other games are preferred by girls. That’s not to say that either gender is better at what they prefer. It’s just the content they find interesting.

If you look at something like LoL or DOTA, it’s plain to see that they are played equally by both genders, and both are likely to be toxic to other players regardless of what their gender happens to be.