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NickCJ
Women are generally under-represented in crash stats, partly as they cycle less than men, but it is also thought that they take fewer risks than men. There is one glaring exception to these general trends, and that's in the aforementioned deaths from left-turning lorries, where they are over-represented.
I've looked at this question for years and have found (where such information was available, which of course it wasn't in quite a few cases) that most victims, not all but a very significant majority, of this type of crash were quite short (men and women). As women tend to be shorter than men, this may explain why they seem more affected, but whether this is true or not, it highlights the need for direct-vision lorries.
http://lcc.org.uk/pages/direct-vision-lorries