{"id":9221,"date":"2009-05-19T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:49:52","slug":"women-cook-men-are-chefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/19\/women-cook-men-are-chefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Cook, Men are Chefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This vintage add (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php?sid=83975214925&amp;h=UrS3I&amp;u=SIUVA&amp;ref=mf\">found here<\/a>) for Kenwood appliances is a nice example of how the act of preparing food is gendered, and how one side of the gendered dichotomy is valued more than the other. Men are chefs&#8211; professionals, with careers. And their wives are cooks&#8211; they cook at home. Men have prestige as professional chefs outside the home, and women have value as caregiver cooks inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that this ad is from the early-1980s. How much of this gendering of cooking changed over the years?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9222\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/05\/a96674_wivesarefor.jpg\" alt=\"a96674_wivesarefor\" width=\"450\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/05\/a96674_wivesarefor.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/05\/a96674_wivesarefor-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This vintage add (found here) for Kenwood appliances is a nice example of how the act of preparing food is gendered, and how one side of the gendered dichotomy is valued more than the other. Men are chefs&#8211; professionals, with careers. And their wives are cooks&#8211; they cook at home. Men have prestige as professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2102,2088,2100,253,272,23705,76],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-work","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-vintage-stuff","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31510,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/31510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}