Factors affecting cooking experience of women in urban Delhi
Student name: Ms Anjali Agarwal
Guide: Dr Kavita Sardana
Year of completion: 2018
Host Organisation: TERI School of Advanced Studies
Abstract: Cooking experience as a term has received very less attention in literature. The objective of this study is to review and empirically test the factors that define urban woman’s experience in cooking packaged food. The study was done on 100 women respondents who visited the nine Big Bazaar stores panning across five districts in urban Delhi. This paper has tried to formulate it through an ordered logit regression by taking cooking experience as comfort level rating, dependent on factors affecting the comfort of cooking packaged food. The study found variables like presence of windows in the kitchen, number of hours spent in the kitchen, number of members in the household and family income as statistically significant. Additionally, kitchen characteristics, socio-demographics and other characteristics, when clubbed separately, came out to be jointly significant. This study is significant with respect to labor force participation of women as cooking experience impacts the “intra-house inequality†which in turn impacts the participation rate. By extending this study to understanding each component of this intra-house inequality, policies could be made to target the issue efficiently.
