Most women nowadays do work outside the home
A large majority of Polish women have worked outside the home since 1944.... Poland never had a suburban housewife culture...
And the social status of cooking is very different from the US which inherited(?) the British view of housework (including cooking) as menial and of low status, a servant culture (like the British aristocracy) inevitably leads to any kind of physical work being of low status...
In Poland, thanks to decades of communist food scarcity cooking and serving food (deciding who eats what) was of much greater status, not overt but
This is one reason for larger discrepancies in life expectancy for men and women in Poland, for decades an elderly woman was a benefit and great resource for a household while retired men had no particular role to play.
