Why? Open floor plan let’s someone cook and monitor kids at the same time. It makes cooking a communal activity and not something to be done in the back and it allows for more than one person to use the kitchen at the same time. Closed cramped kitchen really kind of suck and relegate cooking to an activity that’s essentialy done in a back room. The process of cooking becomes unimportant and all you have is the results. As a man that does most of the cooking I would absolutely hate to have a back room kitchen so I don’t really understand why this would be different if a woman was cooking.
As it says in the article, the kitchen kinda provided an escape for the woman; her own space separate from the family. Now she doesn't even get that. Of course, the point - and the article in general - is total bullshit. But it does say it right there...
Yeah but the rise of open plan coincided with the rise of women in the workplace... And the decrease of space per employee over the same time period. It totally says it. Nobody is contesting that. But it says it fallaciously, with bad data, for disingenuous reasons. The whole article is Cracked looking for a reason to rewrite a Vice article for clickbait.
