I replied elsewhere to a comment from firecat on sewing and want to expand on it here.
I've done a number of technical things in my life, including making my living from technical work for a couple of decades. I took up sewing last year in middle age and was astonished at how much less friction there was starting out on a skill just as technical as some others I've learned but gendered female. Nobody hinted that maybe I just wasn't cut out for this, or looked surprised or unnerved that I wanted to do it, or talked down to me about it. The other people in the sewing groups never seemed uncomfortable or vaguely annoyed that I was around. I never thought I was finding it easy, but also never had the sense of fighting off self-doubt or the fear that people would find out that I can't really do it.
As it happens I'm not very talented at sewing, far less talented than I was at learning computer operating systems. But it's so much easier because nobody will be smug if I screw it up. It's easier in my own head too. Part of this is because I am older and have better perspective and more knowledge about how people learn things, but I think having sexism working for me rather than against me helps greatly. Working against sexism, even at the times there is no overt hostility, is like riding a bike against a headwind.