Are we moving towards a gender-neutral kitchen?

[Anika]

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Roles like cooking, cleaning and housework are generally associated with women. More often than not, it would be rare to see a man doing housework.
It starts at childhood, when a girl is given a cookery set to play with, when she is taught how to cook to take care of her in-laws in the future. I notice that the same treatment isn’t given with men. Men are taught to be tough, but they do not need to know how to cook because they work right? Wrong. Working women still have to do the housework even after a long day at work.

Cooking is a basic life skill. If you learn how to cook, it will make things easier for you. Regardless of the gender, the kitchen is and should be a gender neutral place.
I also want to talk about the different attitudes society has for men and women. For women, cooking is just a duty but for men, it’s art. If someone is good at something we can appreciate them but it’s baffling to see how society treats women.

Yes, we are heading towards a gender neutral kitchen but there’s still stigma around it. Basic life skills shouldn’t be treated as gender roles. If we associate roles with gender, how can we ever achieve gender equality?
So, gender neutral kitchens is a must.

[Aditi Sahu]

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As much as I’d like to say yes, the practical answer to this question is unfortunately no. We are still living in a society that follows the patriarchal standards of living. People still think that it’s women who are supposed to be cooking in the kitchen and not men. While there are definitely some people who understand that cooking is basic life skill that everyone should be equipped with, only few are capable of practicing it in real life.

The problem doesn’t just stop at this. There are some men who cook or do other chores in their house just as much as their female family members do, but these men are either raised too high on a pedestal or they are insulted by saying that what they are doing is not a man’s work. In such a scenario, there is no way we can say that we are moving towards a gender-neutral kitchen. Of course people are becoming a lot more open-minded but changing thinking is a lot easier than making a practice of that thinking.

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