It might be more of gender difference relating to interpersonal communications then aversion to anything technical. Witness how women have taken to computers and the net. Amateur radio hardware has been reduced to a user appliance much like a PC. If my 23 y/o niece can wire a centralized phone,Ethernet,and MATV system, a dipole or vertical antenna is not a stretch. It would probably be different if there were more women in ham radio. Most women are uncomfortable starting a conversation with a male and generally frustrated with men's conversational style. To my wife, ham radio is about endless litanies of boys toys and nobody listening to what the other has to say. Certainly not correct, but it's the impression that's given that it's a boy's club. OTOH, could you imagine if there were more women involved and catch a conversation on the local repeater between a group of women talking about friends,family,work,crafts,fashion,and their feelings? Would you be comfortable getting into that conversation? How foreign would a conversation about Swarowski bicones,cloisonné beads,selecting a mauve duvet,tussie mussie arrangements,anything Prada,Blahnik,or Gucci be to you?