Why are females misdiagnosed and under diagnosed?

I'm male but from my reading there is apparently more pressure on girls and women to fit in with society and they therefore make more of an effort to hide their autistic traits. I suspect also because most people on the spectrum are male that the services diagnosing autism are less likely to think of autism when diagnosing a female.

I'm male but from my reading there is apparently more pressure on girls and women to fit in with society and they therefore make more of an effort to hide their autistic traits. I suspect also because most people on the spectrum are male that the services diagnosing autism are less likely to think of autism when diagnosing a female.