Daddy-h20:
It's more the case where I want to dive a certain wreck or a certain profile and only a few DS have charters going out: so I check out the shop to find that is it a Bastion of Machoism. So it comes down to do I just bear with it to do the dives I want, or go to another DS on the opposit side of town? As I'm often traveling alone and trying to squeeze in a few dives, sometimes going to that other DS isn't an option if I want to get any diving done. It just that the BS is getting really old.

You're right in saying that more women are diving now, but that's still mostly in warmer waters. However, there's more gear for women & more sizes now; it was only a few years ago that I had to get custom or special order from the US directly through the manfacturer as no LDS would special order a women's anything even if I paid for restocking.

Thanks for listening to my rant.