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Summary: The Sexism Of American Kitchen Design

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Michael Davila Stephanie Irvine English 101-251 October 15, 2015 Are Kitchens Designed with a Sexist Approach? Females are often condemned to the stereotype of being appointed to do all of the work in a household’s kitchen. One such woman, author Rachel Z. Arndt, who is a writer whose work has appeared in Quartz, Fast Company, and Popular Mechanics, wrote “The Sexism of American Kitchen Design,” published in 2015 in The Atlantic. Rachel is currently an MFA candidate both in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing program and in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In her article, “The Sexism of American Kitchen Design,” she argues that not only are women generally stereotyped to do all the work in a household’s kitchen, but that kitchens
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