Study: Women losing “womanly” skills like cooking, cleaning

A study in Australia shows that more and more Generation Y (born in the mid-70s to early 2000s) women are struggling with basic traditionally female chores such as cooking, cleaning, and sewing. Oh, feminism.

According to the study commissioned by the Courier-Mail, only 51 percent of women under 30 can cook a roast compared to 82 percent of baby boomers.

Baking a cake also showed a steep drop with only 20 percent of the women under 30 polled saying they know how compared to 45 percent for older generations.

On the plus side, the women under 30 are proving more adept at traditionally male activities; ovr 70 percent of women under 30 polled say they often take out the trash, 77 percent mow the lawn, and 70 percent say they manage their car being washed [ED. NOTE: Hopefully in bikinis to raise money for their cheerleader friends].

I’m not entirely sure what to take away from this survey. Will being able to make cake and sew make me more likely to find a foxy professional woman to fill that void in their skill-set? Or should I stop taking out the trash in the hopes that a strapping young woman will come over and save me from my own excessive waste, like a more romantic version of “2 Girls 1 Cup”? Every time I think I have all the answers, female empowerment changes all the questions.

Generation Y women losing ‘female’ skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing [News.com.au]

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