Cooking Frequencies Among American's Young Men and Women

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Charlotte Alter, No, Girls Are Not Natural Baby Sitters; 'You want Molly, not Tommy?'  Why American boys also need experience taking care of children. Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2013.

My comment:
(a) This article is about a complaint that American families invariably hire a girl to baby sit. There is no need to read it. And I always suspect American families exclude a boy or a man (as a nanny or au pair), for fear of either child molestation or battery or both.
(b) What inrigues me is the third paragraph from the bottom, which reads, "These days, of course, cooking is gender neutral. The University of Michigan's Longitudinal Study of American Youth found last year that married men are cooking 34 meals a month, almost as many as their wives. Cookbooks and websites are now catering to What Saveur editor Helen Rosner calls the 'dudification' of cooking. What if the same thing happened to child care?"
(i) Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY)
http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/project_lsay.html
(a national sample of approximately 5,000 young adults, now 36 to 39 years of age; launched in 1987 with national probability samples of 7th and 10th grade students in public schools throughout the United States; Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF))
(ii) John D Miller, Food; Shared, prepared, organic, and Genetically modified. The Generation X Report, Spring 2012. http://lsay.org/GenX_2012Iss3.pdf
(page 1: "we look at the ways that young adults in Generation X are involved with food. * * * Using data from our 2010 national surveyMarried women reported cooking substantially more meals and doing slightly more shopping that married men. Unmarried women reported preparing slightly more meals each month than unmarried men")

Table 1: Food-related activities, 2010 [in pertinent part]

.........................All............Married............Not married
Number per month.........Gen X........Men...Women.......Men.....Women
Number of meal cooked....42...........34....51..........35......42