This study on housewives not employed full time reports on a field investigation about their recognition of practice and future perspectives in the home management activities in and outside of their homes, in efforts to ascertain the causes and problems thereof. We examined their development of objective as well as substantive activities in their home management. It appears that their management practice is controlled by three factors : age, wife-and-husband relationship and degree of seriousness of self-developmental attitude. It is to be noted that their perspectives of life seem to be related to their intentions of various attitudes. Age and wife-and-husband relationship do not seem factors restricting their participation in social activities such as educational or cultural classes or contribution to society. There are progressive developmental steps observed in the fundamental home management, from the substantive to the objective development. In the process of advancing from one step to the next, the number of restrictive factors increases in proportion of which decreases the number of the housewives who recognize the value of practice or future perspectives. These findings indicate the importance of finding a way to induce the housewives to participate in various social activities so as to advance the objective development of their home management.
