In the immense majority of industries, production workers tend to be male; maintenance workers are overwhelmingly male; quality techs and safety people are pretty likely to be female.
There are exceptions, such as canneries and textiles having lots of female production workers, but even in those you’re likely to have male mechanics and female lab techs.
I was thinking specifically about people who join and sing in choirs. Choirs tend to have plenty of altos and sopranos, but need to stretch to get enough basses and (particularly) tenors.
I was thinking of church too. Choir is mostly women with just a few guys. The pianist is probably a woman.
It varies from church to church.
Falconry: at least 90% male.
Bird rehabilitation: probably 85% female.
While I’ll grant you that the tedious types who are more interested in what cameras/lenses etc. you have and how much they cost tend to be male, I am a female enthusiast photographer and know quite a few other women who are also into that hobby. We tend to be more interested in the photos themselves and the subject matter than in the technical stuff though - it’s more a matter of focusing on the outcome than the process, generally.
Anecdotally I might be inclined to dispute that one. Back when I had a passing interest in the topic the bulk of the serious ancestry-hobby folks I’ve known have been male ( particularly those tracing genetic markers, gene geeks seem to be heavily male ). But as I implied I have no stats to back that up.
Animal rescue, especially for cats. Basically all women.
Horseback riding. Casual pleasure riding is at least 85% women, probably more.
English competitive riding (jumping, dressage) is graduated, the higher the level, the more men you will find. Women completely dominate the low and middle.
Western competitive riding has very clear gender divisions: cutting, reining, roping virtually all to all male. Slow walk jog lope classes which emphasize costume and manners, mostly women. The specific arena races of barrel racing and pole bending, only women.
Dog shows, cat shows, rabbit shows … all women. The few men at dog shows are gay.
A few other noteworthy female bassists:
Enthusiasm for real, full-size railways and locomotives – this, not necessarily an expensive pursuit – is in my experience (I’m a male follower of the avocation) a highly-overwhelmingly male thing. I have been acquainted with a very few female genuine rail enthusiasts; but they seem vanishingly rare.
Suzi Quatro would like a word.
At least here in Peru.
Kindergarten teachers are almost exclusively female.
Lower primary teachers are also overwhelmingly female.
Secondary math teachers: mostly male.
Non-native ESL/EFL teachers: mostly female.
Native ESL/EFL teachers: majority male.
(School) MUN faculty advisors: mostly male.
Fast Food Delivery: Almost exclusively male.
I was part of my English Academy and it was 15 women and me. I’m on the lighter side of baritone, but the conductor had me singing in the lowest part of my register for almost every song.
Except for the hundreds of gay choruses all over the world… the majority of which are male.
Hunting is almost all male. Fishing is close, but ladies are becoming more common (ime).
My hunting club has been in existence since WWII, and we inducted our first female member two years ago. When her application for membership was put before the club, the “yes” vote was unanimous. I was pleasantly surprised, given the average age and political makeup of the club.
Civil War reenactors, war memorabilia, male.
Fans of Rush, male.
Fans of Twilight, Fifty Shades, female.
Hiram Percy Maxim was 44 years old when he co-founded the American Radio Relay League. Most of the members at that time were in their teens and twenties, so Maxim was known as “The Old Man”. I saw one recent comment that today he would be known as “the young guy”.
A lot of these things seem to stem from the toys that boys and girls are “supposed” to play with. Planes, trains, and automobiles for boys and dolls, clothes, horses etc for girls. Now, do boys and girls play with stereotypical toys because they are hardwired to or because we (adults) expect them to?
I suppose that it’s technically a subset of “strategy board games”, but chess is pretty male-dominated.
And I’m a tuba player. While tuba players do skew male, it’s not overwhelmingly so (65-35 maybe), and that might just be due to differences in strength (even though I’m weaker than most women). But I have never, not once, seen a female trombone player. Euphonium/baritone (which plays in the same range), sure, but not trombone.
Homebrewing beer, almost exclusively male. Which I find a bit odd, since, historically, it was the women who brewed. Brewster is “a female brewer” and one of the few female occupations used as last name in English.
Yep. A friend is in a cat rescue. One guy, and he’s a very strange character (and that’s a charitable description).
Kayaking is 50/50. I stopped going on Meetup kayak trips because it was basically dating-in-boats.