There are plenty of adventurous women around I was raised by one who taught me to shoot sail and camp, married another who threw up a high flying career for a simple life and raised a third who was horse riding on a different continent, without her parents, before hitting her teens.to say it with the words of maxwell smart: ""i find that very hard to believe!"" (= meeting a woman doing this sort of thing)
Pioneers would not have colonised much without pioneer women!