Females are probably in the habit of not mentioning their gender, lest they're singled out and inundated by unattached (or not) guys pampering them, defending them and being "extra" nice to them, aka: seedy.
If I recall, I did an AltaVista search (yes, there was another search engine, other than Google!) for a particular problem I had in 1999 (incidentally, the rash has cleared up

), got the answer but discovered there were other questions I could answer, so I joined up and helped out.