"Because generally, we just suck it up and do the work. "
Absolutely true. Just this week I watched three workers working in the rain installing a replacement hydro pole and connections to the adjacent houses. Cold, rain, heavy equipment. Dangerous unpleasant work. Nobody was whining about it. They were all men.
Last year we had a new roof put on the house. Six people all working on a high slope roof in winter weather. Every one a man.
Every road crew I see the people in the ditches and operating heavy equipment are guys. The flag people are almost without exception women. Manning the flags used to be rotated through the crew so each guy got a bit of a break from back breaking labour but now those jobs  go to women, I assume to meet gender hiring quotas, and now the guys don't get that break.