Sorry about that, I meant male as in:
http://www.sapling-inc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ethernet-cable.jpg

and by "female" i meant:
http://terrywhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ethernet.png

Sorry guys. But yeah I'm somewhat new to networking. So what if I just got a switch, where I could plug in the router ethernet to, and from that switch plug in the miners & rasppi?