Crap, I think I left the gas on!

I've been thinking about how it would make sense in terms of natural selection for at least low-level psychic abilities to be very common among women in such a world. I mean, most of the monsters in those kinds of stories disproportionately kill women at the beginning of their prime childbearing years. The demographic imbalance is even bigger for cases where the monsters don't kill their victims outright; female characters are much more likely than male characters to be rendered magically infertile, enslaved and isolated from other humans, or left insane and unable to take care of any existing children they or their relatives might have. And many of these stories have worldbuilding features such that monsters are basically compelled to be violent towards women. So a family that carries a mutation which gives daughters a the ability to sense superpowered misogynists and stay the hell away from them would have more descendants than a family without that advantage.