Well, not quite parity. I think we were five women out of 13 partcipants.
D'où vient-ce? As a statistician I might say: small sample size, no independent random sample either, so probably not quite representative.
But maybe there is indeed a trend of more women going into cycling. For instance, in the cycling marathon Bonn - Eupen - Bonn (http://www.bybike.de/), there are in 2009/10 about 20% women among the participants, which I find quite encouraging.
Anja