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In reply to the discussion: 13-Year-Old Girl Asks Easy Bake Oven To End Sexist Ads: [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)And that is despite the fact that I was deprived an easy bake oven when I was a kid.
My parents have own and run a small restaurant my whole life. My father was the only cook and my mother was one of three waitresses. I learned by emulating what my father did. It's funny that I don't know a single woman who can or likes to cook. Cooking food from anything other than from a box is a skill that not a lot of people have - and cooking from a box is pushing it for the people I know.
My daughters are definitely growing up with influences contrary to the gender norms our society perpetuates. They have a dad who cooks and cleans and a mom who is the smart/educated one in the family (she is just shy of having two Masters degrees). I'm a chemist for the federal government and I've been doing my best to make sure that my daughters will be strong in math and science. They're going to either be messed up or empowered (I tend to think empowered is going to be result).