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This began as a fun list for a recently bereaved friend who was wondering what to do with her life now that she was alone. The internet is such a fascinating place that it took on a life of its own!
It also brought home how many things women are able to do today in Canada. As I well remember, I had finished grad school before the first woman was allowed to run in the Boston Marathon, and even then furious men along the route tried to physically prevent her from completing it. It was several years more before the presidential prohibition on American women in space was lifted, and still more before women were no longer automatically fired from most occupations when they married, as my mother was. I was close to retirement before a woman was able to become premier of a Canadian province, over 120 years after Confederation.
The USB stick I gave her included photos obtained from the web showing women doing each activity, often in an amusing way.
To avoid lawsuit trolls, I have to omit them here but you can easily obtain your own: simply type "woman (activity)" into Google images.
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Intimate activities are not included because 1. I'm happily married and 2. my wife doesn't need a list
acroyoga
air traffic controller
airline pilot (Lynn Rippelmeyer, 747 captain)
archer
astronaut (Samantha Cristoforetti)
babysit
badminton (Ashwini Ponnappa)
bake bread (Tina Guo)
ballet
ballroom dance
baseball (Olivia Pichardo)
baton twirl (Annamarie Leske)
belly dance
bikini snowboard
billiards (Jeanette Lee)
bird feeder
bird watch
black tie waiter
blacksmith (Anna Biletskaya)
blow bubbles underwater
bodyboard
boilermaker (MacKenzie Gulland, Argyle Engineering)
bowl
break dance
breastaurant waitress (Hooters)
bricklayer (Betty Longlegs)
bush pilot (Leighan Falley)
cabinet maker
cabinet minister (Honourable Rechie Valdez, Minister of Small Business)
cake decorator
calf roper
candle maker
canoe (Laurence Vincent-Lapointe)
car mechanic (Faye Hadley)
card games
Caribana (Mayor Olivia Chow!)
carpenter
chainsaw operator
chinups
circus performer
climb ladders
climb trees (That Girl Tree Care)
contortionist (Svetlana Belova)
cook
corporate CEO (Laura Behrens Wu, CEO Shippo)
cosmetician
cough
crab fisher
cricket
croquinole
curler
cut up food
cycle (Puck Moonen)
darts
dentist
dermatologist
dig garden
dive (Jennifer Abel)
do laundry
doctor
dog food taster (Lucy Postins)
dog walker
drag race (Brittany Force)
drive across continent (1922 photo)
drive tractor
drone pilot
drywall finish (Lydia Crowder, Drywall Shorty)
dust
eagle hunt (Mongolia)
eat burger
eat salad
electrician
embroider
enjoy coffee
farrier
feel sad
fencer (Ibtihaj Muhammad)
field hockey (Casey Sablowski)
fight oppression (Ukranian poster)
figure skate
fire breather (Rebecca Crow)
firefighter
flamenco
floor exercises
fly acrobatics (Melissa Burns)
fly fish (Maxine McCormick
flying trapeze
foot archer (Orissa Kelly)
foot care
frisbee
funny underwear (for yourself)
garbage collector (Megumi Sawada, Taiyo Tokyo)
glass blower
go-karter
golf ball diver (Nicky Dörfel)
golfer (Bri Teresi)
gospel singer (Yolanda Adams)
grow hair (Aliia Nasyrova)
grow veggies
gym workout
gymnast (Kyla Ross)
hairdresser
hang glide
hang out (teens)
hard hat worker
harness race (Lauren Tritton behind Lochinvar Art)
headstand (Bertram Mills Circus 1953)
heavy equipment operator (Sam Sears)
high-wire walk
hitchhike
horse rider
hula hoops
hurdles
hydro lineworker
ice hockey (Hayley Wickenheiser)
ice sculpt
ice swim
in-line skate
jam maker
javelin throw (Maggie Malone)
jenga
jewellery maker
journalist (Hind Khoudary)
juggle (Eva Vida)
jump for joy
kayak
kickbox
kitesurf
knit
lacrosse
landscaper
lift weights
limbo (Shemika Charles)
lingerie basketball
log roll (Katie Burke)
long jump
look sexy (for yourself, why not?)
magician (Jen Kramer)
make amigurumi
make fruit platters
mermaid (Melanee Schneider)
minstrel
model
motorcycle race
muscle build (Rosie the Riveter)
nail care (go wild!)
nurse
oil rig worker
Olympics volleyball (they do it in bikinis)
origami
paint artwork
paramedic
parkour (Nicole Smith atop Burj Khalifa!)
petrographer
pharmacist
photographer
physicist (Magdalena Kowalska, ISOLDE)
pick coconuts
pinball
plant trees
play bass (Carol Kaye)
play drums (Sarah Thawer)
play guitar (Nita Strauss)
play sax
plumber
pole dance (Mari Hayashi)
podiatrist
pole vault (Angelica Bengtsson)
police officer
postal worker (on strike of course)
potter
Premier of a province (Danielle Smith, Alberta)
programmer (Margaret Hamilton, NASA)
pub crawl
puppeteer (Megan Piphus Peace)
pyjama party (hold one or go to one)
quilt maker
read a book
ribbon dance
ride unicycle
ringette
rock climb (Lynn Hill on El Capitan)
rollerskate
roofer
rope pull
rope skip
row
run for Prime Minister (Ruby Dhalla)
run own small business (Sarah Walsh, Bridal Jewellery Ottawa)
run
sack race
sail (Natalia Kosinska)
sand castles
scuba dive (Tierney Thys with shark)
scull
set world record (Ciara Antoski free diving)
shave legs
sheet metal worker
ship captain (Kate McCue, Celebrity Summit)
shovel snow
sit on heels (in the north, everything to sit on is cold!)
ski jump
snake wrestle (Delta Dawn)
sneeze
snow fort
snowmobile
snowshoe
snowtube
soccer
softball
split wood
spring legs runner (hope you never need them)
stack cups
stained glass
stargaze
steel worker
stewardess
stilt walk (Betty Longlegs)
stock shelves
streetwalker
sunbathe
surf the web
swim
sword swallow (Lucky Hell, Finland)
synth player
table tennis
talk on telephone
tapdance
tattoo artist
teach math
tend plants
tennis (a Williams of course!)
throw snowballs
toboggan
train driver (Chelsea Gipson, LNER)
trapeze (Kellie Daggett)
truck driver (Gülsen Demirci)
upholstery
use dishwasher
vaccinate
vaccuum
veterinarian
visit art gallery
walk
wash car (in bathing suit)
wash dishes
watch Netflix
water polo
water ski
water slide
wave surf (Lilliana Bowrey)
wear overalls
weave
weld
white-water raft
window clean (20 storeys up!)
witch (Serpentessa wicca)
wrestle
yoga
Zamboni operator
zoo keeper