I’ll tell my niece that.
For some reason the banjo (at least the bluegrass 5-string variety) has always been associated with men.
Which make it ironic that the best bluegrass banjo player (by a pretty wide margin, imho) is Allison Brown. A woman. But when you get a bunch of (male) bluegrass banjo players to list the great banjo players, you rarely hear Brown’s name mentioned. Although I’m not sure why. I assume it is because she plays a lot of non-bluegrass (but she plays plent of hardcore bluegrass also.) She really is in a league of her own banjo wise.
BTW,I play the banjo. Poorly, but it still qualifes as playing.