Behind the scenes in a restaurant: A study of 1017 women restaurant employees

by Consumers' League of New York City

Table 3.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Conjugal Condition.

Age	Single	Married	Widowed	Separated or Divorced	Total at each age
14 and under 16 years	2	...	...	...	2
16 and under 21 years	226	12	2	1	241
21 and under 30 years	235	153	19	12	419
30 and under 40 years	42	97	53	14	206
40 and under 50 years	8	40	26	3	77
50 and under 60 years	...	4	9	2	15
60 years and over	1	...	1	...	2
Total	514	306	110	32	962[18]

Table 4.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Living Condition.

Age	Living with					Total at each age
	Family	Relatives	Friends	Furnis’d Room	Proprietor
14 and under 16 years	1	...	...	1	...	2
16 and under 21 years	82	78	59	18	6	243
21 and under 30 years	198	74	62	64	16	414
30 and under 40 years	92	37	24	36	10	199
40 and under 50 years	45	5	4	17	4	75
50 and under 60 years	11	2	...	1	...	14
60 years and over	...	...	...	2	...	2
Total	429	196	149	139	36	949[19]

Table 5.
Age of Women Employed in Restaurants, by Weekly Hours of Labor.

Weekly Hours of Labor	14 and under 16 y’rs	16 and under 21 y’rs	21 and under 30 y’rs	30 and under 40 y’rs	40 and under 50 y’rs	50 and under 60 y’rs	60 y’rs and over	Total in each hour group
54 hours and under	2	77	193	109	27	6	1	415
55 and under 65 hours	...	67	85	22	12	3	...	189
65 and under 75 hours	...	47	76	32	15	1	...	171
75 and under 85 hours	...	41	58	34	14	4	1	152
85 and under 95 hours	...	5	14	10	5	...	...	34
95 and under 105 hours	...	5	3	...	2	1	...	11
105 hours and over	...	3	...	1	2	...	...	6
Total	2	245	429	208	77	15	2	978[20]

Table 6.
Weekly Hours of Labor of Women Employed in Restaurants by Occupation.

Weekly Hours of Labor	Waitresses		Cooks		Helpers		Total in each hour group
	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent	No.	Per Cent
Under 15 hours	6	1.0	...	...	1	.3	7	.7
15 and under 25 h’rs	75	14.0	1	.5	7	2.4	83	8.1
25 and under 35 h’rs	89	16.2	1	.5	22	7.5	112	11.0
35 and under 45 h’rs	45	8.2	7	4.0	13	4.5	65	6.3
45 and under 55 h’rs	100	18.2	17	9.0	42	15.0	159	16.0
55 and under 65 h’rs	78	14.2	34	18.0	85	30.1	197	19.3
65 and under 75 h’rs	68	12.4	51	27.0	64	23.0	183	18.0
75 and under 85 h’rs	73	13.3	49	26.0	36	13.0	158	15.5
85 and under 95 h’rs	11	2.0	15	8.0	9	3.1	35	3.4
95 and under 105 h’rs	2	.3	7	4.0	3	1.1	12	1.1
105 hours and over	1	.2	5	3.0	...	...	6	.6
Total	548	100.0	187	100.0	282	100.0	1017	100.0

Table 7.
Weekly Hours of Labor of Women Employed in Restaurants by Nationality.