So I'm a girl gamer. In our group of friends I'm the only wife/girlfriend who plays, and I don't play in tournaments. I play skaven (if you didn't guess) and orks. I do see some of our friends whose significant others hold them back from playing, but mostly they think I'm sort of an oddity and I get a fairly positive response.
Had one fellow who didn't like to play me, but I think that's because he didn't know plague monks had frenzy until he charged them with his vampire counts and they didn't run away immediately.
Ratgirl