A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46

VII. EATING OF CAKES INSIDE THE FAMILY

Cakes are not in all families shared equally among the members of the family, and a question was asked “Who eats most the cakes you buy or bake?”

Table 10
How cakes are shared: %*
Shared equally 38
Male members of the family eat most 25
Female members of the family eat most 18
Children eat most 22
Would not answer 4
Do not buy or bake 5
Sample: 2372

(* Answers could include all these categories - i.e. men and women working children, or any one or two categories.)

Where cakes are not shared equally men and children seem to get a bigger share of the cakes than do women.

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