Yup, in retrospect, I missed several. Suzi, as well as Esperanza Spalding, D’arcy Wretzky (Smashing Pumpkins), Meshell Ndegeocello, and others. While they’re still not common, female bassists are out there.
Fans of progressive rock, in general, seem to be largely male.
I know lots of men in animal rescue, but they are all half of a married couple that does it.
Fishing, mostly male.
I, too, have noticed that most people involved in the animal rescue world are female.
In which case one must ask about cause and effect. Did he get into animal rescue because his wife was, or did he meet his wife in the course of animal-rescue activities?
Hmmmm.
“Bird! Do my bidding! Hunt and kill for me!”
“Ohh, the poor little birdie! Here, I’ll make you all better.”
Yeah, I can see the difference.
Similarly with interest in planes or ships, touring old fortresses and coast defenses, or special interest in military history which might be related to hands-on interest in military a/c, ships, vehicles etc. In years on military/naval/military ac interest web boards the % of regular contributors who stated they were females was very low, a couple out of 100’s of regular contributors cumulatively. And they were women who’d served in the military and seemed most interested in political/social aspects relevant to that service. A self-described woman really interested in the history of eg. X WWII tank or cruiser’s development and combat history: I have never seen it on such a board.
Obviously I’m not saying nobody period, there must be some. And I can think of one female author who has contributed several articles about historical Japanese warships to the annual publication ‘Warship’. But she’s the only one I can think of, and I read a lot on such topics. I belong also to some real life organizations related to fortresses and they are 100% male AFAICT from the membership lists and events I’ve attended. It’s only less than 100% if you speculate a true shared interest in a couple where the woman would come if the man couldn’t make it, but I doubt that’s common based on experience, including personal. 
This seems slightly less true in one corner of the general field of my interest, firearms especially if broadened to general interest in shooting, and not specifically related to military history. In that case IME a large % of enthusiasts are male but not as near 100%.
I volunteer at the local historical society, I’m also president of the local genealogical society. I would say that’s it’s 40-45% male to 55-60% female, so not a huge difference. Professional genealogists do tend to be women, but not by much more.
Just a quick look at the books sitting around me, transcribing tends to go more female while research publications are a bit more male oriented. Oddly every transcribing/indexing book near me are all by women, though most of them are church records from the same general area so that might be part of the reason.
I’d say a lot of horseback ridding tends to be done more by women.
Back when I was in high school I knew a girl who was a huge fan of Rush. But yea, they’re rare.
I have yet to meet a female fan of Black Sabbath.
And Kim Gordon.
I’m not sure we know where the line is.
In the 60’s/ 70’s there was a very strong movement towards non-gender typed toys. (I think perhaps dolls for boys eg GI Joe were part of this?.) Which was part of a general movement for non-gendered roles. And you see the resurgent idea in the way that any successful toy is first sold to one gender, then re-marketed to appeal to the other.
But the whole modern idea of gender-re-assignment is based on the belief, which came out of the observation of the effect of gendered and non-gendered environments, that you couldn’t force boys to be girls, or girls to be boys, by manipulating their environment.
So, if you can’t make a boy into a girl by treating him like a girl, then perhaps you can only help a boy that is really a girl by helping him to be a girl…which is to say that girls are really different to boys, and since playing is what people do, that says that girls and boys (or men and women) will play differently
I think the whole question on toys is open. The toy industry is taking bets both ways.
I always thought that was kind of weird myself; homebrewers are a pretty accepting lot on the whole, and the ones I’ve known wouldn’t have any problem whatsoever sharing their hobby with women.
Hooker is another.
Classical piano/music seems to be mostly a girl’s activity in East Asia; at least in the K-12 age range. I recall one high-school age piano competition in Taipei in 2004 in which there was only guy participating; every other contestant was a girl.
Lung power vs. finesse?
Like how, in medieval-fantasy movies, a woman is an archer and the men wield swords.
That’s been my anecdotal experience also, having pursued genealogy as a hobby since 1977. I’ve had correspondents all over the world who were also heavily into finding their ancestry, and they did skew more male than female, though not by much.
And most of the sources compiled in the 19th and early 20th century were put together by men, IME.
related to dog shows, Dog agility contest folks are almost 100% female owners.
Figure skating is about 30:1 female to male under 25. Over 25 it’s about 2:1. I’ve been on the ice many,many days where I was the only adult female figure skater and there’s 4 male figure skaters. And by figure skaters I’m excluding hockey players, I mean people that can do dance steps, spins, jumps , and footwork. Adult male figure skaters seem to get into it when a daughter takes up skating and keep up with it after she quits and so for adult figure skaters it skews the numbers to be almost even.
Still friggin hard to find a male ice dance partner. Note to guys who can skate even in hockey skates, if you can learns a few ice dances you can be paid $50 an hour (or more) to partner women skaters.
A lot more women shoot than you think.
I known a woman stamp collector, a woman brewer, and a couple of women ham operators. They can’t be that rare.
Figure skating is about 30:1 female to male under 25. Over 25 it’s about 2:1. I’ve been on the ice many,many days where I was the only adult female figure skater and there’s 4 male figure skaters. And by figure skaters I’m excluding hockey players, I mean people that can do dance steps, spins, jumps , and footwork. Adult male figure skaters seem to get into it when a daughter takes up skating and keep up with it after she quits and so for adult figure skaters it skews the numbers to be almost even.
Still friggin hard to find a male ice dance partner. Note to guys who can skate even in hockey skates, if you can learns a few ice dances you can be paid $50 an hour (or more) to partner women skaters.
A lot more women shoot than you’d think.
I known a woman stamp collector, a woman brewer, and a couple of women ham operators. They can’t be that rare.
I can see I should have been more clear in my description. I’m not talking about professional or semi-professional academic level research. I have no idea about that. I’m talking about people who are using ancestry.com and similar on line archives to research the ancestry of their own families as a hobby.
In my opinion and experience, men tend toward a lot more obsessive focus than women in general. One area this manifests itself is hobbies, where I think men are much more prone to exhaustive pursuits of some weird thing that strikes their fancy, whether trains, ham radio, military history, car performance, or whatever. Even when women are into a hobby, are they as invested as a male hobbyist? I don’t think the female scrapbooker holds it as close to her identity as a male train enthusiast. Which is good, a tendency toward more balanced healthier lives. I say this as a male, with my own obsessive hobbies.
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