More than just working with things males tend to prefer working with tools more than building new things. Yes there are many males that are creative and only prefer creating original works, but not most. When it comes to working with things females, unlike males, tend to prefer the ideas of things, theory, more than the implementation or practical application, which may speak to planning.
There was a recently published study that females across the world score higher in cognitive (learned) empathy than males. The same study found no distinction by sex in innate (natural) empathy.
None of this should come as a surprise. For decades we have known that females score higher in agreeability and males score higher in assertiveness. As such females will tend to position themselves into interests of lower social friction and higher direct engagement than males. Males will tend to position their interests into areas of greater critical reasoning at sacrifice to social engagement than will females. Yet despite that most males remain fully unwilling to distance their interests from those that are perceived as higher value by their group dynamics.