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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gender based chores are not all that uncommon still. I know lots of teen girls and women who can't:
use a drill, 
add oil / windshield washer fluid to their cars
set or empty a mouse trap
use a weed wacker
do basic household repairs
shovel snow etc

No different from teen boys or men who can't
operate a dishwasher
do their own laundry
cook a meal
change a diaper etc

Lots of people have been raised with very gendered household tasks and some definitely still perpetuate those. I used to work at a college - there were a lot of helpless young men and women who didn't know how to do basic tasks that they should have learned a long time ago. Young women who didn't know how to unscrew a light fixture and change a light bulb and young men who had never made a bed and didn't know about top and bottom sheets. Some just didn't know how to do any chores regardless of gender but many others had been raised to only do more traditional gender chores (and this was a very liberal college). [/quote]

Would you not agree that all of those young people would be better off if they had all of those skills regardless of gender?[/quote]

Of course! I think they should all have all those skills and be able to do basic tasks required - but the reason they don't is often because the chores in their households were gendered. Or as I said in some cases, they didn't know how to really do any tasks because they hadn't helped out at home at all.  I also think people don't always realize they are perpetuating gendered tasks - they mention to a daughter / son that 'I'll add that to dads list to fix' etc.[/quote]

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