Yes, there are some female gamers and some who read comics, but they far fewer than their male counterparts.
I have no idea about comics, and I don’t know what the exact figures are for GW2, but recent surveys show that around 50% of gamers are female. This idea that women are a tiny minority of gamers also needs to die; it is horrifically inaccurate.
Yes, I stand corrected, nearly 50% of gamers are women, but women spend less money, less time playing, are far less likely to play video games as a primary hobby and, oddly, more likely to feel guilty about playing. Also women are less likely to be playing Strategy, Role Playing, Action, and Fighting games while they are more likely to be playing Social, Puzzle/Card, Music/Dance, Educational, and Simulation games. So yes, while women do compose about 1/2 the gaming community, more than 1/2 in some demographics, it doesn’t mean we’re playing the same games for the same amount of time. I suppose I should have qualified the RPG genre. An MMO may be a little different than a standard RPG in that it has a social aspect that many women tend to like, but typically the goals between men and women are vastly different. It doesn’t change the fact that GW2 is marketed to attract the male player population.
So with GW2 the ratio could generously be as high as 25-30% women, though I personally think it’s more like 10-20%. In my circle of friends, in my original guild, I knew 3 out of 20 players were women, only two played seriously, one played entirely for the social aspect and never did more difficult content. The other is the only one is still playing and does mostly WvW. I know one other woman who plays WoW fairly seriously and one who plays Counterstrike.
A small 2012 study on the male vs. female video game community.
http://usabilitynews.org/video-games-males-prefer-violence-while-females-prefer-social/
WoW published demographics a few years ago. For North American players, it was, I think, 46% women. That’s not female characters, mind you, that’s actual women playing. We are most definitely playing these games.