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Why is the frequency of red-green colour blindness is many times higher in males than that in females?

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Why is the frequency of red-green colour blindness is many times higher in males than that in females?

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For becoming colourblind, the female must have the allele for it in both her X-chromosomes; but males develop colour blindness when their sole X-chromosome has the allele for it.

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