Yes, this is another type of stereotype we’re facing here. As we know history says us from ancient times it’s the men who hunts and women who stays in cave and looks after the children and family. And of course we never asked a proof to claim that. Even just before some days it’s discovered that actually women are the hunter one. So, whatever it’s, we just preserve the fact that women are for cooking and household chores while men need to go outside and earn.
Actually, it’s those stigma of patriarchy which never changed. Yes, maybe they changed their all over appearance but never get to be changed in inner way.
At 17th and 18th century, it’s also seen that women stay behind the curtains. Whether at time of kings or nawab, women got the same position.They seems no problem with it, and if someone tried to raise a voice against them, it was stopped deliberately.
So, basically it’s that custom going through the generation by generation that women are here to please other. Whether it’s by cooking, or serving their families. We never felt need to make things flexible for them. It’s the harsh truth that we are still living in those ancient stereotypes. Thus we never let cooking be a skill for a better life, rather we impreached it as a duty, which has to be served. Still now, mother get mocked if she doesn’t teach her daughter cooking and household chores, daughters are always expected to stay by mom’s side and help her, not a son. And even its shameful for a girl who doesn’t know how to cook, but absolutely ok for a boy.
And while the patriarchy is growing and engulfed in the heads of our society, sometimes they declare that it’s shameful for a boy to do cooking and household chores.
And the absolute part is women themselves accept it unconsciously, thus a man, knowing how to cook, make a huge difference for them. They accept it that cooking is some extra tallent for a boy while for a girls it’s just another duty.
These gender stereotypes are going on and on.
Cooking has to be declared a part of skills to make our lives better, not some kinda tallent hunt winning skill among men. And parents should also make it clear, that there’s no gender discriminated duty among their children. If he needs to be alive, he has to learn this skill and don’t expect anyone else to do it for them