"Women’s knitting circles have a long history beyond our grandmothers’ favorite pastime, but men’s roles in knitting have had a long history, too. In the Middle Ages, there were knitting guilds, essentially labor unions, which prohibited women from joining. "

Nowadays there are men-only groups around the World.

source:

https://qz.com/quartzy/1154260/dudes...-you-knitting/