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[quote=LEONARDO,356391]Who cooks?

Hi Gaffer, it is an interesting question. I have also noticed that many husbands are better cooks than their wives. I think it is not a coincidence but a reflection of women’s status in Chinese society. For a long time, the traditional gender roles in Chinese society are: “the man (husband) plows, the woman (wife) weaves.” In other words, men are mainly responsible for so-called important things; women are responsible for household chores. In a sense, women are chained to kitchens, hence better cooks. As the founding of New China in 1949, women were liberated to have their own career or profession. Especially, as the competition in modern China is becoming fierce, the increasing financial pressure on average families needs both husbands and wives to work to support the families. Women have less time to do their daily chores. Men began sharing the load in both doing daily chores and cooking. I must admit (though I am a Chinese man myself) that men are no longer the center of the family. Today, the mentality of many Chinese men has changed. In the past, doing housework (looking after children, cooking, washing clothes) seems to be a humiliated thing for men; while today (as I observe from men around me) many a man no longer has the biased attitude on managing housework. 
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