I know that I am not bothered by the fact that the mothers carry the baby(ies) around for the first two years and can do everything except their careers. My moms all seem to "catch" back up very quickly and easily. So far, all of my moms have been elated the majority of the time while carrying the babies, even the ones that claim No way to kids, but having one that's depressed isn't unthinkable.

But when people claim that the mothers are the only ones that read the recipes or do the cooking, well that's just plain not true in my games at all. I have an equal number of dads who do that as I do moms and in fact, I have less trouble trying to get a dad to make a meal than I do most of the moms.

One dad of mine even has a Like of Cooking and something else, which I can't remember right at the moment, but he actually often goes and makes a meal without me even telling him to.

I don't know, I just think this whole gender equality issue is, for me at least, a moot point. I like the game the way it is and find tremendous improvement over what the moms could do in the VV games.