Time Factors in the Business of Homemaking in Rural Rhode Island

1929

National Agricultural Library

Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College. Bulletin Number 221

A summary of the work of the rural Rhode Island homemakers whose records have been studied shows an average working day of 7 hours and 45 minutes in household activities. It should be remembered when comparing it with outside work that this is a 7-day per week schedule. A comparison with the figures quoted by Richardson 5 from a similar survey of the Bureau of Home Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture, shows that the Rhode Island woman works nearly 3 hours a week more than the average. There is a daily average of 45 minutes work for financial gain. A few activities reported as miscellaneous would add a few minutes to the day’s record. According to the statements of the women who kept these records the old saying “man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done" is no longer true.