The process of making bread, including mixing, kneading, rising, and baking.
Compound of bread + making, a gerund form describing the craft and process of bread production.
Breadmaking is one of humanity's oldest technologies—it requires understanding fermentation, heat, and chemistry, making ancient bakers unexpected scientists!
Gerund form perpetuates dual-coded bias: domestic breadmaking feminized, industrial/professional breadmaking masculinized and valued higher. Term itself is neutral but context invokes gendered labor hierarchy.
Use 'breadmaking' gender-neutrally; actively credit women bakers and acknowledge that skill in breadmaking crosses gender.
Women have pioneered commercial breadmaking (e.g., sourdough fermentation knowledge passed through generations by women); professional recognition often went to male successors.
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