lol, Our neighbor just retired and her husband got her a Rototiller. She didn’t act terribly excited about it, but he was thrilled. And obviously put a lot of thought into it, is because he talked about how it was light enough for a woman and that the salesman swore that his own wife loved her Rototiller.
There’s farm work which is man’s work, and there’s household work which is woman’s work to that way of thinking. Household extends to the yard and vegetable garden. On larger farms where the husband could be gone all day plowing, mending fences, what have you, with larger families I’m sure that was about the only way it could work. Now it’s just a holdover, a throwback to family subsistence farming that was the norm up until the sixties or so.