A woman’s place is in the kitchen.
It’s a phrase often used sarcastically in modern conversation as a throwback to an era when women either couldn’t or weren’t encouraged to work outside their homes.
Rejecting the original intent, women in the restaurant industry have now adopted that phrase as an unofficial battle cry – a woman should have a prominent place in commercial kitchens.
In fact, of the seven Greenville-based female head chefs interviewed for this story, each one mentioned that phrase, challenging the inference and asking why, then, if women are meant for the kitchen, are there comparatively so few in executive roles?