Fourteen patients were retired, six continued to work full or part time, four were homemakers, two checked other (education) and two responses were missing.
In 1949, the first Pillsbury Bake-Off, a lavishly publicized event featuring a hundred homemakers working at top speed in a hundred model kitchens, was staged in a ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Still, a return to a life more like the 1950s, with one breadwinner and one homemaker, is an unreasonable expectation.
Announcing the changes last week, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the coalition government, said Britain's current maternity leave arrangements, where women are entitled to up to a year's leave, reflected an old mind-set that "families are still comprised of one breadwinner and one homemaker: Mum in the kitchen, Dad in the office".
For more than two years homemakers and retirees have been polishing the stonework by hand and cooking for the construction workers.
Mrs. Johnson, a 52-year-old mother of four and homemaker, said she felt she had little choice because her school-age children needed to use the Internet for research.
Six participants were full-time homemakers, while four worked part-time.
The four women, New Jersey homemakers whose husbands vanished in the rubble of the World Trade Center, head a group demanding an independent inquiry into the events surrounding Sept. 11.
Three middle-aged homemakers were wearing the same slightly stunned expressions as they ambled down another aisle, tossing a can of Tostitos, a big tin of bay leaves and some bacon bits in their modestly filled basket as they went along.
