Why were executive chef and other restaurant kitchen positions considered a man’s job when women were expected to be the household cooks?

Question

Why were executive chef and other restaurant kitchen positions considered a man’s job when women were expected to be the household cooks?

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Answer 1

there’s a pretty shameless trend across many (most? all?) cultures that anything high status becomes a man’s job and anything lower status is women’s work. There are cultures where hunting is low status, and it ends up being the women who hunt. There are cultures where knitting is high status and the men do it. If getting kicked in the head by a horse earned you social status we would probably insist only men could do it.

I’m not trying to come off as raging against the patriarchy or anything, I just think people are weird and kinda dumb.