Do men or women cook more meals at home?
Data Scavenger Hunt
Find answers to the following questions using the visual above:
What was the average number of meals cooked at home per week globally by women?
What was the average number of meals cooked at home per week globally by men?
What was the average number of meals cooked at home per week globally in total?
As of 2022, identify the gap in the average number of meals cooked at home per week globally by women and men.
Over time has the gap in the average number of meals cooked at home per week globally by women and men grown?
Big Brain Questions
Answer these questions by yourself using your brain and any links below:
What most surprised you about the data from the visual above?
The cooking gender gap stands at 4.7 globally, which means that worldwide, women cook over four times more meals at home than men. Why do you think that globally women cook more meals at home than men?
Describe the main differences between the countries with the largest cooking gender gaps and those with the smallest cooking gender gaps.
Fewer Americans than ever are eating meals cooked at home, but in those remaining home cooked meals, the gender gap remains. In the United States, women cook about two more meals per week on average, than men. Describe the cooked meal gap in your home.
What do you think would happen worldwide if women went on strike to narrow the global gender meal gap?
Write and Discuss
Take ten minutes to write about the question at the top of the page and then discuss with your classmates.
Act on your Learning
Survey ten people and ask them to describe the cooking gender gap in their homes. Share your data with your classmates and use this data to construct an estimate of the gender coooking gap in your community. Share your results on the comments button below, email them to jonathan@socialstudieslab.org or share them on X @UsGoPoPro
Get Creative
Write a creative response (story, rap, song, poem, fable) about a place where men cooked more meals at home than women.
