Yes, especially since terrorists rarely recruit women much less old women.
No, they are actively recruiting and training women. Their clothing makes it easier to conceal explosives, they often fake pregnancy w/ a "bomb" belly, and there are reports of experiments with breast implants.
"Both
Osama bin Laden and Egyptian radical cleric
Yusuf al-Qaradawi have endorsed the recruitment of women to attack U.S. and Western interests. Even Hamas, which initially forbade the use of female operatives,
sponsored female suicide attacks, acknowledging females suicide bombers as fellow martyrs.
"These "bombshells" are part of an evolving terrorist threat challenging U.S. law enforcement to reassess not only the physical and psychological characteristics of terrorists but also the methods available for concealing explosives."
A female suicide bomber killed 54 people and wounded 122 in Baghdad this February.
2 female suicide bombers killed 35 people and injured 100 more in Moscow in March.
The Growing Threat from Female Suicide Bombers :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism