Assignment 4 - Averi Ricks - My Dad's Beliefs

My dad believes somewhat in the idea that a woman should do all the cooking and cleaning in a family. He says that men can cook too, but he also always tells me that I need to learn how to cook because no guy is going to want to marry me if I don't know how to cook. He and my sister constantly have discussions about this, and he definitely is coming around to the idea that a woman doesn't have to do everything. I started thinking about this a lot this summer because I was home alone most of the time and I never really cooked anything, thus prompting my dad to start telling me I needed to learn. The way I see it, women only did all the housework because they didn't work. Now they do, so it's only fair that the cooking and cleaning be split equally in a marriage. When I told my dad this, of course he agreed, but he argued that men like to be taken care of in the marriage and that that's also the wife's job. Can the man not take care of the wife too? She's working just as much as he is. I don't think I told him that though, I just moved on. Obviously, I'll learn how to cook in the future, but I don't think that me not knowing how to cook is gonna prevent me from getting a husband. And if it does, that's the guy's fault, not mine.