gender and art

these two pieces feel very masculine to me.  they don't seem to implicate anything feminine or womanly at all, or at least not anything we typically know to be feminine.  the statement and the image in the top piece implies power, and power is not historically a word society used to describe women.  also, i noticed that the arm holding the torch looks like a masculine, strong arm.  strong is also historically not a word used to describe women.  i've looked at the statement here and tried to interpret it, but i still can't quite get what it's trying to tell me, except for maybe that people have to choose to be happy, and that happiness doesn't just happen.  the second/bottom image is a very science oriented image, along with the text.  historically, science is very male.  even today, you see more men in the science field than women.  whether that is because science does not appeal to females or because females are directed away from the field of science, i'm not sure.  though i think this speaks to a more male audience.  there's also nothing foofy or feminine to this piece.  it seems as though these pieces don't even seem to include or think about women or anything feminine.  so maybe they are trying to illustrate how the world historically has done that very thing...forget and ignore women except when they are needed to be sexual with, produce children, and/or do the housekeeping.  i don't know if kruger is challanging all males per say.   however, i do think that she is challanging the very idea of masculinity in our society and how women and femininity go unnoticed or tends to be discredited and looked at as being less than.  i think the difference between the two is that challanging all men would assume that all men are shovenist pigs.  many of us know that is not the case and you cannot rightfully assume such things about people you don't know.  the difference is also that challanging the cluster around the sign of masculinity is challanging society and all people, and also how we all look at gender in society and gender expectations.