Routine of cooking practices among Malaysian working women

• Published in: Current Issues in Hospitality and Tourism Research and Innovations - Proceedings of the International Hospitality and Tourism Conference, IHTC 2012
• Main Author: Kamaruddin M.S.Y.; Bakar S.K.A.; Mohd Zahari M.S.; Bakhtiar M.F.S.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84866931867&partnerID=40&md5=f48b96f6117dbf6f4172874365fcde49

Working is becoming a necessity and one of the most vital elements in this modern era for bachelor and family couples in combating with the economic needs. Despite working, women need to sacrifice in many things together with one of the crucial household responsibility besides others and that is cooking. Due to the increasing number of working women, this study is therefore empirically investigating the issue related to routine of cooking among the working women particularly in Malaysia. Self -administered questionnaires were distributed among the working women. Through the descriptive analysis, some meaningful insights on the issues of interest were obtained and the findings overtly revealed that working time, economy and dietary pattern are factors that lead them with no other options and therefore opt for convenience cooking practices for their family dinner during weekdays. Despite this, in maintaining the pleasant family relationship, love and nurturing the family members particularly among the growing ones, home meal cooking is performed during weekends. © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group.