See that tractor up there in that picture? Know who's at the wheel? A woman.
Back 'in the day', when you saw a tractor in the field you knew who was at the wheel. It was Bob or Henry, maybe Jim or Carl or Johnny. The point is, it was always a 'he'...
If you were on the farm in the 1960's, you no doubt are familiar with the phrase "Knee high by the 4th"? These days "Knee high by the 4th" would be bad. Very bad.