The Smurfs: Why so few females?

I only remember them introducing one female smurf early on in the cartoon and that was Smurfette, who I think if I remember correctly, was created by Gargamel as one of his scemes to get the smurfs. But obviously failed as she ended up becoming a good guy and making a life with the smufs. Later they added an elderly female smurf and a younger female smuf with red braids/pigtails and wore pink suspenders. As to why there really are no female smurfs, maybe the females live in their own village, and only have a select few males living with them. Maybe the two sexs' can't live well together for long periods of time. Lol I don't really know why. :D :))

I thought that was kind of strange too. Later on the lady smurf did get a baby smurf. But who the father was I don't know. I forgot her name. It has been a long time ago, since I have seen them. The smurfs were created by Father Abraham in the Netherlands.