The number one response was “cooking”, but among the other responses was hairdressing, nursing, cleaning and doing the laundry.

However only three of those surveyed responded with laundry.

What numerous others responded with was vitriol aimed squarely at the program for being misogynistic and attempting to create publicity.

That could all be true.

One female critic said no-one I know would respond that way.

We certainly can’t argue against that, but what we can argue is that, many in Australia still do.

And perhaps we can go even further. In fact we know we can.

In many Australian homes mums, wives and girlfriends still do the bulk of the cooking, the cleaning and, the laundry.

Is that fair? Of course not. But it’s true for many homes, whether the women are working (outside the home) or not.

Rather than attacking the show (mind you why they decided to ask the question is beyond us - were they just taking the mickey?) We should use the responses to underline the raw deal women get in Australia. 

More importantly we have to use it to teach young boys, and the not-so young, that it is not the role of their mothers or any woman to be the household’s chief bottle washer.

Only then, maybe, when that question is asked to a new generation it will be met with, not “doctors” or “lawyers” or ”prime ministers”, but with something even more telling, non-comprehension for a meaningless question, at least in regard to gender.