"Doing Cooking" and "The Problem That Has No Name"

In the Giard reading "Doing Cooking," I found it interesting how the act of cooking becomes personified and embodied by the kitchen itself, as if the literal act of doing cooking had done something wrong or wronged Giard on a personal level, even though she herself was the one performing the act?  She goes so far as to refer to cooking as her "enemy" even though it is essentially just an extension of the self, a way she can come to express her ideas and thoughts.
I also found interesting her use of this phrase silent legend, as I feel it quite accurately describes many tasks women are expected to do.  They are expected to perform these tasks - cooking, cleaning, laundry, caretaking, etc. - and are not acknowledge or praised for them, because they have the connotation of being every day, ordinary tasks.  Almost as if the men were to say "we could do them, we just don't want to" or "we just don't have the time."  Unless, of course, these tasks are "carried out with a certain degree of excellence" she says, which ultimately would make them male business anyway.
We see this idea in the Friedan article as well right in the beginning, when the "suburban wife" is unsatisfied in her womanly duties.  She lists all that she had done that day, and still feels wholly unaccomplished, because her work goes unnoticed and unacknowledged by others, making herself feel as though she then doesn't deserve recognition and isn't worth anything either, since these tasks are all she does all day long.
Also in the Friedan article I found interesting the statement about the girl who refused a science fellowship at John Hopkins to take a job in a real-estate office.  She does this because science was deemed 'unfeminine,' but it's interesting that it's not having a job in general that makes her refuse the proposal, but having this particular job.  So these women aren't even concerned about the fact that they're taking time away from housework, the kids, or taking the 'breadwinner' title away from the man, but rather the idea that certain jobs might label them unfeminine?