It's often believed that men are more inclined to be risk-takers than women, not only in gambling but also in the investing world. The majority of investors are indeed men. Similarly, in gambling, it is true that most high-risk takers are men, while women tend to gamble more for entertainment purposes.
Men have this kind of a developed risk taking mindset unlike the women, men are more likely to gamble than women and this does not apllies to gambling alone, there are more other aspects where women are not actively involved like that because of the risk also involved in which women were still believed to be low risk takers or none at all.
Furthermore, some women enjoy gambling even more when they are not using their own money.
Yes, if you're to give them money to gamble, they will definitely give a try even when they have no experience about gambling all because it's coming on a platter of gold, being free, they like anything that is freez less risk and income generating task, that would require less from them.