article_snippet: The skills that come with lumberjack sports are traditionally left to big, burly men wielding axes and monstrous saws.
article_snippet: But this is changing with women donning their 'lumberjill' boots and proving their place in the male dominated sports.
article_snippet: Women's involvement largely started with the Jack and Jill sawing division that sees a man and a woman working as a team to slice through the log. '
article_snippet: Mostly women get into it because women husbands need a partner for Jack and Jill so their husbands need a partner for Jack and Jill
article_snippet: train up their husbands need a partner for Jack and Jill wives,' Erin LaVoie from Washington said. '
highlights_snippet: While Lumberjacks are commonly men, women participants are on the rise .
  