The gender gap in “home cooking” has widened in nearly every country worldwide. Women cooked just under nine meals per week, on average, in 2022. Men cooked about four per week. These are the results of an annual survey by Gallup and Cookpad, which tracks how often people prepare and eat home-cooked meals in countries around the globe.
When the survey began in 2018, traditional gender roles were well established, but during the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病) years, the survey results showed that men were cooking more. This narrowed the gender gap, explains Andrew Dugan, a research director at Gallup, who has worked on the survey since it began. “Every year since the study started, the gap narrowed,” he says. However, the latest results, which Duggan says come as a surprise, point to a reversal of this trend. In 2022, women continued to cook at about the same frequency, but men started to cook less. On average, men cooked a little less than one fewer meal per week. “It’s the first year that the gap actually widened,” Dugan says, pointing out that the gap has returned to its starting point in 2018.
The gender gap varies by country. In the United States, women cook about two more meals per week on average, than men. The survey report graphs the countries with the largest gender gaps, including Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Egypt, Nepal and Yemen, where women are making about eight more meals per week than men. The countries with the smallest gender differences in cooking are in Europe, including Spain, the UK, Switzerland, France, and Ireland. There’s only one country where men actually cook more than women.Wait for it.....Italy. “This is a surprise,” Dugan says.
It’s not clear why Italy obtained different results, or why the gender gap widened in all the other countries including the U.S., but chef Mike Friedman, who operates several restaurants in the Washington D.C. area, has his opinion.
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