The only NPCs who give out secret quests (the ones that the whole village doesn't know about) are males: there's the trapping quest, the give me your knife quest, maybe a few others, but always a male.
This means that it's not really worth it to talk to the women in the village at all, because if there's a public quest then anybody can tell you about it, so asking a guy has you covered, and if there's a secret quest then you have to talk to potentially all of the men but you can skip the women.
Sometimes a women can be the quest giver (the take me to your home region quest), but that's a public quest that everybody knows about.
tl;dr: The next time more quests are added, it would be nice if there were some quests that only the female NPCs know about