Do women shy away from risky skill games?

A risky skill game is a in which plays an important role but outcomes are also strongly influenced by random factors. Examples poker or blackjack many economic activities like trading on financial markets. In online experiment we let subjects choose how often they want to play game. We find that women only half as rounds games with high variance. contrast, there no gender difference if the depend exclusively chance (mostly) skill. Our results indicate previous research effects environments (such tournaments) may have greater applicability than previously thought.