Non-discrimination gone to far!
As part of learning the guitar, I've been listening to some folk music... a nice place to start was the Chicago Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook, in three volumes. (Yay, emusic.com.)
So... women are a part of folk music, so it's only right and proper that they be represented here. But why do so many of them sing songs that are implied and even explicitly from the male perspective? It's rather jarring at times. It's one thing to hear a woman singing "Wild Rover" or "Sportin' Life" about hard living. It's another to hear a woman singing "East Virginia" about the singer meeting a fair young maiden and longing to lay her head on said young maiden's breast.
But there aren't any songs sung by men about other men. (Granted, there aren't that many folk songs from the female perspective... but there are a few on this collection, and they're all sung by women.)
I'd say that over half of the songs with a traditionally male perspective are sung by women. It's a weird skew. It's like they've gone overboard trying to give women an equal part in the work.