traditionally women do the cooking why then are the worlds best chefs men?

Question

traditionally women do the cooking why then are the worlds best chefs men?

Answer 1

Because making Hamburger Helper, Mac n' Cheese and ordering pizza is not fine dining.



Seriously, in business and in a career, you have to work at it to develop your skills and build a reputation. Men tend to do that while women eventually want to have families which takes away from their career. It's the balancing act between career and family. Of course, the family wins, as it should.



That's the same reason why there isn't that many women CEO's. Of course, you'll people arguing about a "glass ceiling" but large corporations take great effort to promote women... Even the corporate women eventually want children.



You probably see this in your work place everyday.

Answer 2

A) Because women were too busy cooking for their families stuck in the home for which there is no money and no recognition. Being a chef is a career and take time and dedication. Behind every successful male chef there is probably a wife somewhere - if he has kids traditionally he has been in the restaurant - not at home.

B) It is only since the second world war in the UK that women have really worked if there was a choice in the home and only since the 80's that dedicated career women with choices have emerged and it takes a long time to build a master chef career. Look at Forbes.com for rich lists and you will see worldwide precious few women in the top 100 of any list (bar the all female ones of course)

C) If you have the job of cooking at home all the time why would you want it as a job?

D) Women are catching up at least in the west - it takes time. Maybe my daughter will choose to be a chef.

E) If you've noticed women are still paid substantially less than men for the same jobs at board level in the UK although it is changing - source I am a London Head hunter

F) Tradition is a pants excuse for a lot of things that are wrong world wide!

Answer 3

well...kind of wrong question..

1.(.I assume we are talking about five star hotels here....)all over the world ,chefs are men (to my knowledge-experience primarily ),so naturally worlds best chef would be a man..



So why arent there women cooks?



To be a chef at a fancy restaurant,hotel would be a taxing job,away from home for 12 hours or so...not so favourable for a woman who must fortunately/unfortunately also bear a child and the pshyco/phsysico/socio/eco baggage attached with it...even a 40 hr week is so badly managed at times (I know),leave alone 48 hr week and let us not even discuss many places where you would be made to feel odd if u got up to leave for home even after the time was up..





2. Unfortunately child care doesnt exist everywhere...but i have seen women cooks in not so fancy restaurant...say in thai,sri lankan, or chinese restaurant...which seemed like family run restaurants , where i guess it would be more convenient to have a career (here to cook-now I wonder if they get some salary or not-maybe the husbands running the restaurant think they can use some free help- but thats another discussion...) and also take care of the baby and family food.. I mean they eat from what they cook right..?



Still, why are male cooks so imaginative in their cooking?



3.You always do a job well when there are percievable stakes in the first place or they are high,.....

Anybody man or woman will get up at 5 am to take up a flight to meet a client ....but how many will get up to exercise?-but then tell the same person he will die if he doesnt lose fat and he must live because then he could donate his kidney to his ill daughter....you get the drift....he would do it earnestly...



I know many housewives who find cooking boring .....(no stake: definitely not paid,at times not even appreciated..)

I know some who turn up fancy stuff day after day(though defintely not paid but appreciated.....

I know a few working women being very creative with their cooking.......



lets not make such general statements...its like a man telling a woman.."We anyway earned money more than you...now we can even cook better than u...You are good for nothing......"



Its the same question..why are there so few female professors at Harvard?why so few top female lawyers?why so few female CEOs.?



In my opinion...excellence at job or anything is result of many many factors......and as my professor( a lady) once said..its not necessary you excel...it is ok if u manage to survive.......

Guess many women just try to survive......

Answer 4

two reasons: the first is that women do it out of necessity, while men usually do it as a hobby-and we all know about men and their hobbies! Second, the women are too busy doing the cooking at home to become chefs for a living. I have a friend whose husband is a chef, and I commented that it must be nice-and she said he never cooks for her. He doesnt expect her to come home from work and type, so he shouldnt have to come home from work and cook, lol

Answer 5

It isn't true. There are many women that are very good cooks/ chefs. Anyone who is passionate about what they do, male or female, can do anything they want to do. If you look at FoodTV, it is pretty much an even balance between male & female hosts. This may not be a wonderful representation, but I think the reason we know the male cooks/chefs better is because they tnd to have the restaurant chains, and seasonings, and cookery, etc.

Answer 6

Because women were traditionally homemakers while the husbands went out to work. Then in the late 1800's-early 1900's Fannie Farmer came out with the Boston Cooking School. Women then felt more empowered to cook something other than gruel. They started having luncheons, trying new things, and including working outside of the home. But since men had held these "non-feminine" jobs for so long, it took even longer for women to break through a male-dominated field. Women were used to having to respect the male, and that didn't fly in a kitchen environment where women didn't want to disrespect the male.



There's a fascinating book called "Perfection Salad" that details the sociological history behind women becoming cooks and chefs.

Answer 7

There are a lot of silly answers here.

Men can be creative and artistic, they also are more stable under constant pressure.

Anyone who wants to see top class cooking should go to the top restaurants around the world. The level of pressure for top quality output is unbelievable.

We all have our particular talents, please do not run others down because you do not have that skill.

In my family all the men are good cooks,

It is a game you can eat.

Check out the TV prog Master chef.

Answer 8

Because men see as a trade, an art form or a way to pull women.. Women see it as a way to feed the family..



I was an only woman in a kitchen with men, and God love, they really thought they were great.

But then I didn't share their enthusiasm, but I wasn't smoking 40 a day or drinking every night either..

It's a very stressful job, and anyone who sticks it should be paid at least €50k a year.

Answer 9

Because men are better leaders and can shout orders to the rest of the staff better! Imagine Delia trying to run Ramsays kitchen with half a dozen male cooks at rush hour! They are famous more for their restaurants than their individual cooking skills.

Answer 10

Because the chefs you refer to are CAREER CHEFS. Now tell me who traditionally rises to the top in careers?? its not women is it now?

Answer 11

The world's best chefs are not men. The world's best chefs are mothers, or have you guys forgotten how your mum used to slave away at the kitchen preparing your breakfast before you set off to school and preparing your takeaway lunch. Yes indeed, mothers are the world's best chefs.

Answer 12

Because men have the ability to keep their cool under pressure where as women panic and get in a bit of a fluster.

Kitchens are a very high pressured environment.

Answer 13

Traditionally men get the higher paying aspects of every job.

Answer 14

Women think cooking is a chore but men think it's an art.

Answer 15

I don't know any many (or woman) that can cook better than me. Also, in this country most women do the cooking, but most of them also buy boxed or prepackaged foods and know how to season only with salt and pepper (bleck!).

Answer 16

It's true, my boyfriend is an amazing cook. I think it's probably because women "have" to do it and men do it because they enjoy it. You always put more effort into something you enjoy doing than something you have to do.

Answer 17

Women do the cooking just like any usual household chores, while a man tries to impress someone when he does the cooking. I guess men are just more creative in their approach to cooking.

Answer 18

Personally I would love a man to cook my dinner for me every night.



I think the answer to your question is men cook because its something they love to do, women do it to feed the family.

Answer 19

Don't know if you have noticed but like everything else traditions have changed. I have 3 married sons and 2 of them do most if not all of the cooking that is done in their home. They had a good teacher though and she was Mom.

Answer 20

being a chef isn't cooking, it's creating and men have the need to create because they can't create life like women can

Answer 21

Men just brag more

Answer 22

Because women cook for the survival of the family and don't play with their food because they are too knackered:-)

Answer 23

because women do it all day at home and loose the enjoyment of cooking as it becomes necessity

Answer 24

Because its a novelty with them



We women don't have time we just plonk it on the plate we don't mess around with appearance of it, we just make sure the dish suits all tastes in the house (and that is a job in itself trust me)........

Answer 25

men can take much beating in the kitchen

Answer 26

you have female cooks like Deila Smith, Fanny Craddock, etc

there was an indian one I can't remember her name

Answer 27

men are better at everything not just cooking!

Answer 28

Sexism!!

Answer 29

yeahhh i never thought of that! good question.

Answer 30

They AREN'T---they just get more media coverage.



I'd guess it's pretty well divided in half...

Answer 31

It's true, but I don't know why!