3 female winners in 13 seasons: 1 in Adult Indian Idol and 2 in Indian Idol Junior. Yes it's difficult for girls to win but I feel in recent years Indian Idol has been a better choice over SRGMP. Some runners up and non finalists of Indian Idol are more popular than the winners of SRGMP.
Isnt it usually SRGMP participants who get playback singing offers after? Like Shreya Ghoshal? Indian Idol singers I have only seen singing for Himesh's youtube channel.