I was 21 and my mum was in hospital, so my Dad and I were lookng after house and looking after disabled older brother. I asked my younger brother - 19 at the time to go and remake beds I had stripped and washed bedding for. I had left the clean bedding on the end of each bed. He came down half and hour later to ask me to how him how to put on pillowcases, fitted sheets and duvet covers.
My mum did everything for all of us, I did not lift an finger at home until I was about 15, but when it got to that age, I WANTED to be more independent and started to learn stuff. Boys/Men just don't bother I think if they have a woman to do things for them.
When I was a kid though, my Dad taught me how to wire a plug and other stuff like that, and when I got my first banger, he would not let me drive it until I had learnt to change the tyre and check oil & water.
There are lots of women who are completley helpless at this kind of thing and have to get a man in to do every little DIY job for them, this baffles me as much as men who can't iron a shirt.
My DH worked in a butchers shop from the age of 12 until 18, and subsequently he is the most thorough cleaner!