Fair point; I will try and avoid using "females" in the future. FWIW, the main reason I used this phrasing was that I had already used the word "guys", but wan

Fair point; I will try and avoid using "females" in the future. FWIW, the main reason I used this phrasing was that I had already used the word "guys", but wanted to steer clear of the analogous word "girls". Using the word "women" seemed like I would be suggesting some sort of age/maturity dichotomy between "guys" and "women", and it seemed to me that "females" didn't have such a connotation.