But wasn't Celtic Connections getting flack in the press a year or two ago about women being under-represented?

I have been going to trad-ish community-type singing workshops for about 25 years and on the one occasion when men outnumbered women the leader commented that it was the first time she had ever led one where that was the case. IIRC most of the women had gone somewhere together.

What is the relative representaiton of male and female in school choirs?