An annual survey by Gallup and Cookpad found that the “cooking gender gap” has widened in 2022 as women are cooking more meals at home than men worldwide. Since 2018, the survey has tracked how often people around the world prepare and eat home-cooked meals. It found that women cooked an average of 8.7 meals per week in 2022 while men cooked an average of 4.0 meals per week. As a result, the gender gap between women and men increased to 4.7 meals per week, which the survey noted is “a significant difference.”
From 2018 to 2021, the cooking gender gap was narrowing, the survey explained. Although men have consistently cooked at lower rates than women, the former made some progress in closing the gender gap over the past four years. This was likely influenced by the onset of the pandemic, Andrew Dugan, a research director at Gallup, told NPR.
