Abstract
As many housewives responsible for household affairs nowadays work in society, some problems may arise in the family's dietary life. Therefore, survey was made in order to clarify the following two questions:
(1) Factors which have influence upon the family's dietary life.
(2) Problems of dietary life which result. This survey was made on about 550 married women of both the Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and the Monopoly Corporation.
The results were as follows:
1. Problems concerning dietary life.
(1) The percentage of taking breakfast was low. Especially, in families which had infants under school age, the percentage of housewives taking breakfast was low. Further, when office hours were irregular the percentage of their husbands taking breakfast was also low. However, in case of a family with a helper, the percentage of husbands taking breakfast was high.
(2) Factors in deciding the recipe were the following three: The importance of taking three meals a day, finding a suitable shop to buy materials and how to purchase items, and the use of processed food-stuffs. Considerations given to these factors were the same as general housewives.
As a result, it may be said that in spite of the relative high-priced material for its quality, the meals which they took were very unbalanced from the nutritional viewpoint.
2. The following three factors appeared to have influence upon the dietary life at home.
(1) Standardization of the working-type of housewives.
(2) The existence of infants.
(3) The existence of a helper in household affairs
