With a rapid increase in housewives' employment, the problems on the rationality of the household works become serious in the every house. Therefore, this study aims at researching those of the present condition in America, where the housewives' emplo...
With a rapid increase in housewives' employment, the problems on the rationality of the household works become serious in the every house. Therefore, this study aims at researching those of the present condition in America, where the housewives' employment has been popularized, in order to give a help to make direction in Korea.
The methods of this study include questionaire and a actual survey of the present condition with special emphasis on the aspect of eating and housing habits. As a results, the rationality in American household works is caused by the use of electic utensil, the simplification of cooking process, and the cooperation of the family members. The details of the above mentioned results are summarized as follows;
(1) Most of housewives dislike washing cooking utensil, washing dishes, and extra cleaning except floor cleaning, and ironing.
(2) The eating habit in America is uniformized and simplified. American people use much more kinds of manufacturing food than Japanses and Koreans.
(3) Most of Americans have American style sandwitches for lunch.
(4) Most of housewives clean floor, and the frequency of floor cleaning is 1.8 a week.
(5) In general house cleaning, in more than 70% of every home, all family members work together, and various tools are used in cleaning.
(6) All the possess electic vaccum cleaner and 1.6 in average, and upright-style is most popular.