I know I'm a little late on this thread, but in my opinion, TE isn't great because we are women, TE is great because of the type of women we are individually.
I have belonged to many other all-women forums and none of them can come close to the civilty and commraderie that we have here. Hell, they often devolve into flame wars faster than BikeForums could ever hope to!

There are two other forums that I frequent that have a similiar vibe to TE. Both of them are very, very well moderated. I'm going to give credit both to the moderators and admins here, and to us as a community. We are an accepting lot. We don't tolerate stupidity/ego/flames...people who like those types of interactions just don't hang out here for long because we don't feed it. It does wonders for creating a comfortable space!