Hil, the tours are segregated by sex only when it comes to touching to Western Wall. However, there's a farther section of the wall where organizations such as Women of the Wall [link] and others who don't answer the orthodox code of being go to pray. I can find out more, if you'd like - email addy is good.
If your friend would like that, I can put a note on the wall on behalf of her/him/I'm clueless about the appropriate pronoun, I apologize.
And yes, it's birthday, but I'm busy to tears. Hebrew birthday, thank God, starts exactly when I get on the plane in the Great Iantos Hunt.
Spent too much time online now. Gotta go. Papers. Guh.
Edit: because only you will understand me. The explanation on WotW site regarding their name and Hebrew grammar is absolutely bullshit. Because of the construct state ( [link] ) of the expression, it won't be "nashim" (plural masculine), it would have been "neshe" or something like it (which is pretty genderless, as far as Hebrew goes). Yes, adding "ot" does make it feminine (grammatically speaking), but as the correct form is meaningless when regarding to gender - I mean, come on. Be feminist, sure, but don't twist and lie about grammar when it's on your side.