It may depend on your background. My Norwegian friend (and her Danish and Norwegian friends that I've met) has no problem drinking beer. At all. By the keg full.
On the other hand, I'm a little older and remember my mother telling me that women didn't drink beer. Even in college, I wasn't a beer drinker. I don't care for the taste and don't want to be considered a beer drinking woman. Yeah, that's probably an old fashioned mindset, but there ya go.
I have noticed that a lot of the women my age have always told me that “beer is nasty”. And I do have to admit it’s an acquired taste. Nobody likes beer the first time they try it, but we get used to it somehow...:)