In high school, I was the first girl they let into Ag. class and the men teachers weren't happy. Turned out, I was the best welder in the class so the teachers were totally ticked. They wouldn't let me work on the big outside projects because that just wasn't for girls, don’cha know. I got the smaller shop projects I could do on my own. When they'd get frustrated with a guy, they'd send him in to help “the girl”, sigh... Of course, I'd end up having to teach the disgraced boy so he could be taken back into the he-man club. Maybe that's why I like welding. More of a neener, neener, take that you chauvinistic jerks.
I seem to be of the type that likes to learn new stuff, especially purely brain stuff involving lots of reading, and then move on after a year or so to something else new.
I do understand what you mean about the Ag. class. I was a mathematics major in college, and the only girl in most of my senior classes. I did enjoy beating the boys. LOL My grand daughter was the only girl in her Ag. class. The teacher was fine with it. He said all the guys liked her too. I'll bet they did. She was a cutie.LOL
My oldest daughter was really into science, math, and basketball. At the time there was a girl's team, but they had so summer program. So she went and played with the boys during their summer clinics.
Now the boys didn't like it much and so she had harassment, but she just gone even by beating most of them, and holding her own with the few others. It made her a good player. The coach was good with it and encouraged her.
She was the only freshman girl on the varsity team the next year, and she got to start quite a few games too. So, I think she gained a lot of respect from the coach for not quitting and staying in there even though the guys were acting like jerks - which he did address, when he could catch them at it.