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True, getting offered help with lifting and picking things up is an advantage that women get, and rarely men. I’ve also found that men tend to ask for help with jobs easier than women do. Probably lots of reasons for that, including the training in teamwork that you get as boys and young men. Girls learn to do work on their own more, so even if a woman’s doing a “man’s” work, she’s less likely to think of that. Also, a woman doing a man’s work is liable to want to prove she can handle it and turn down offers of help. A man usually isn’t worried about that. But of course sometimes being seen as needing help can be nice.