How to encourage more women to cycle?

What do you mean by LCC have a vehicular cycling mantra? They've never come across the way you describe above, to me at least.

I have been a member of LCC for years. In the beginning, I think, what Blue Quinn wrote, was true. We did push that approach. I think there was a view that if you get enough people out there on bikes, road conditions would change around that. The critical mass idea. Well, lots more cyclists have appeared on the roads compared with the 80's. But change has been slow. And with Boris' tenure at TfL, seems to have stalled completely and possibly even reversed in favour of motor traffic again. To be fair to LCC, I think they have taken this on board and changed their approach, not without some internal opposition. That's what their new Go Dutch policy is all about.