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In short, the type of backgrounds that most people on LW have, and other communities they are in, tend to be as gender-skewed as LW, if not sometimes moreso. Go look at the Computer Science department at your nearest university, for instance.
To my surprise, supposedly in the early 1990s females were 1/3 of undergraduates in computer science - http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Gender_issues/women_in_ai.article
I've worked with roughly 20% female AI graduate and phd, which was higher than I'd expected after my undergraduate class, which was at least 90% male.