Home Managerial Abilities of Current Housewives

-A Case in Nakano-ku, Tokyo-

Abstract

Home management means an activity to utilize limited resources endowed in each family. The present researcher, along with this basic understanding, once proposed a method for measuring the overall managerial ability of the housewives (N. Sakai, 1966).
This paper, like the previous works, applies the same method to another group, 500 housewives who reside in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, and attempts to add a new fact to the above basic understanding of the issue.
The followings are the major findings :
1) So far as the activities are concerned, they co-ordinate and direct the whole program well, while they have poor abilities to control, to plan, and to evaluate their management.
2) They skillfully manage such resources as the foods, family love, the budget and assets, and their time, but they are not good at managing others like the knowledge and technology, and the utilities. In addition, they poorly utilize the public facilities.