What should I woman know?

well, almost everything that i can think of isn't gender specific anymore. women can do almost everything men can do, and vice-versa. mm..except for giving birth of course..that's a skill exclusively to women i'm a guy..i can cook, i can sew, i can iron my clothes, i can do the laundry, and i can take out the trash, change tyres, fix the kitchen plumbing, burp excessively. and my mate can do all that too so i don't see anything that is specific to one gender only...with the exception for giving birth

I´m not going to write here what I think of your friend bacause you might think that Im unladylike. I don´t think there is anything a woman should know more than a man. When my husband was alive, we had some chores he did and others I did, but they were not "man chores" or "woman chores". It was more like trying to use our talents in the best way. I always mowed the lawn, for instance. He was born in a place with little grass and could never distinguish the good plants from the weeds. So after a couple of times he mowed some nice plants, I forbid him to get near them. He was the main provider though. I have two university degrees but none mean a very well paid job. Take care!

Hi Paula Indian society quintessentially has always treated women as dogged humans whose only job should lie in meeting up with the demands of the men around her until recently when we have just begun to come out of the closet to think differently. Women now have progressed much and now we believe that we should know everything, we should be able to do all the stuffs and do them when we would like to and not because some men wants us to. My family has been very progressive that way and that too through generations. My grandma, my mom are very progressive and we three sisters have grown up as humans rather than as girls.

No for me I wouldnt want to do a mans job. I always want to be pretty and smelling nice at all times. I think I will be better at a job that uses my brains because I believe that since women are made to be 'weaker' in the strength department, they are made to be stronger in the brains department. Therefore I dun understand why women want to compete in games where braun is used, she will have much better chance when she takes part in something that uses her brains. Leave mowing the lawn to the man, use your brains to teach the children complex mathemetics. As for cooking, however I do agree that all women should cook and take over all the males chefs that are making loads of money.

Funny you should ask: I am Puerto Rican born and raised in Chicago. I married really young to a man who was 10 years my elder, who happened to be born and raised really old fashioned in Puerto Rico. I quickly learned that although I too had to be an out of home worker, I also had to be an in-home slave. I became a wonderful cook, cooking 7 days a week and no such thing as a quick sandwich or salad for dinner ever. So following my divorce, I put all my skills to action. I was still the great career woman and a wonderful superman. I use to mow my own lawn, was my own windows, clean the gutters, landscape and climb the ladders to paint the exterior of my home. Funny thing I was always either busy working for an employer, carpooling the kids to and from all their sports and then there were the lengthy weekends I jumped up the ladder to do repairs. I literally had female older ladies in my neighbor interrupt my work to sort of reprimand me and say, I had to stop doing so much as it was making them look bad. Hmmm making them look bad. They would always explain that their husbands will begin to feel that they should be doing most of the work also. My response to them always was I do not have a man at home hon, so I have to do what I have to do. Here I am now in my early 40's, blessed with two wonderful college graduate kids and a wonderful boyfriend. I no longer own my home and no longer have to cook, if I don't want to. My boyfriend is so self sufficient that he does his own laundry, washes dishes, does most of the cooking and discards the garbage 100% of the time. I immediately found this odd when I first moved in and in fact felt that now I was becoming lazy. He has taught me that nope, there is no such thing as a woman solely does all the household chores and that in a relationship we are in this together. So the idea of any man or woman that categorizes household chores as a specific category is coo coo.

Woman should know the tasks that she has to. At least, I suggest you to learn a little about how to cook. I don't blame it if a girl doing a man works. But I think man and a woman have their own duty to take.

Years ago I guess I would have agreed with him but not now because it is so different now Male/ Female makes no difference they should know how to cook work the Washer know things about cars as that is the world today lol

Keeping apart all male chauvinstic remarks Paula I do think that it would be ideal for a woman to know how to cook--one important reason is that she can assess the type of nutritious intake her child may need and prepare it.Men may not be as good as women in this aspect.

I think men and women should be able to hold their own at most common type things - check oil, or boil water. I think he's a bit of a pig for thinking women are better at cooking than men, Emil???? I never enjoyed cooking that much either, but since I've had a job where that is part of my duties, I've discovered that I really don't hate it as much as I thought I would. In fact, the other day, I surprised the roomie by cooking dinner all by myself and doing a GREAT job of it!

I think you showed admiral restraint in not cold-clocking your friend...

Yeah I think its good that we know the things that men usually do...so that we don't just wait for them to do those things for us. And it'll be nice if men would do the same way.

buncha silliness... Not all women can cook, and some men are great cooks. Learn what you are comfortable with learning/willing to learn, and find some other way to deal with the rest. People who don't cook can eat out, make sandwiches, eat cereal, etc.

i THINK both should know how to cook. If the woman works to i think the men should share the kitchen duties. My ex could cook but never did when he was not working. First thing out of his mouth when i came home from woek was what's for supper. That use to tick me off big time when he'd been there all day sitting on his 'rusty dusty'.

I honestly believe that we should all learn to do everything we need on a daily basis and not depend on someone else to do it. That most definitely includes cooking! I think it's as important for a man to know how to cook as it is for a woman. It's important for a woman to know how to fix certain things around the house, too. As for oil changes, I'll let the experts do that. But, I LOVE to cut the grass. We have a LOT of grass and I bought a rider mower when we moved here so it's actually a lot of fun cutting the grass which is really a good thing in my marriage because my husband is most definitely NOT an outdoor kinda person. Luckily, I am. Hmmm, now that I think about it, I'm doing almost everything around here. Oh, my husband does change the oil... usually later than it should be changed but he still does it. But, I do most of everything else. By the way, I do love cooking. I wasn't raised to love cooking, though. My mother was a terrible cook, probably because she didn't like it herself. I had to teach myself and I learned to love it. I just wish I had more energy so I could cook more. I can't predict when I'll have flares in my fibromyalgia so I always keep frozen entrees handy. I LOVE those frozen "meal in a bag" stir fry things. They're awesome! As for females being better at cooking then men, I agree with you that it's a crock of sh**. The majority of great chefs are MEN.

Hi, paula27661. I think that all women should at least know how to cook. And men need to know how to cook too. A women should not be the only person that can cook. My grandmother is over 70. And she mowed her lawn from time to time. She was doing so when she was in her 60s. I think that she allows her son to mow the lawn sometimes. That helps her out some. Men need to learn how to do things just as well as a women. I say it this way: We may never know when we will be placed in a situation where we may have to act out of our gender/role. So, it is always wise to know how to do certain things when that time comes.

Hello, I'm not really a good cook but I enjoy cooking. And by the time I get married I'd really want to be able to cook a very delicious meal for my husband. I'd want it if he tries to get home after work early everyday because he'd rather want to be home and join dinner with me than dine out. I just find it so sweet. LOL. It's also very handy if all would learn how to do the laundry, the sink, the lawn and the plumbing but I'd want my husband to get someone else to do that instead than me doing it all by myself. LOL. Cheers, Honey

Hi paula! It has always been important to me to be able to do the same things as a man can. Now granted I can't fix cars but I have learned some basics like checking oil and water. I am also pretty good at knowing what is the cause of a car running badly because my grandfather was a mechanic and I spent a lot of time with him.I have also had to maintain my own yard but my guy takes care of that now. It is good to be able to do things that you normally wouldn't because you never know when you might need to. Take care.

What is so funny that some men think that a women needs to do this and that but if you look at the world today women are holding down enough as it is, working raising children we basically multi task, and I agree that everyone should and need to know how to cook, us as women are very talented though in the kitchen we bring love to the kitchen so whatever we cook you can feel the love and the time we put into it. My thing is that men are so quick to say what a women role is but when it comes to their roles they dont understand or want to understand, men role n life was to go to work and bringhome the bacon and let us cook it. women were not to work, so basically the times that we are living in now people are confused, because women became so independent for the fact that men would leave a the women high and dry with nothing and women had to start from scratch with nothing because the men would jus t leave the women with the children. It just a matter of the change of times.

I tell him that all the time, that I am the luckiest woman on earth and you will love his response: Say nope he is the lucky one. LOL... Yes I did not ever imagine being able to find someone like him, however he has changed my perception to 180 degrees. Have a nice night

The saddest thing my girlfriend ever said to me was that she didn't need to know how to change a tire, that's what the men were for. I was always the He-woman in our group. I grew up in a family of women - my mom and 8 girls vs my dad and 1 boy. I never in my life heard my mom or dad say, "that's a man's job" or "that's a woman's job". Since Dad had so many girls, many of us were tomboys and he taught them to shoot a rifle, fish and hunt. When I got older I learned to change my own oil and flat tire, push my own car out of the snowdrift and swing a hammer, turn a wrench and any number of things that most would consider "men's" jobs. It has come in handy. When you live on the frontier, a woman has to pull the plow alongside her man. I grew up in Alaska which is basically frontier so I learned to be very independent. Now I'm disabled and it's very hard to have to ask others to help me haul wood and shovel the snow from my door. I think it's good for a man to be able to take care of himself. After all, not everyone will find a mate who can help when he needs his pants hemmed and a single guy can't always afford to eat out every day.