It seems that nowadays people are required to do more activities that were not mandatory in the past. Like it says, today people have to commute everyday and to learn how to use computers. However, contrary to this disadvantages the developed world gives them that people also get benefits which didn't exist 20 years ago. One of these advantages is that people don't have to spend as much time to cook or prepare food as people of 20 years ago had to.
This is possible because the developed techniques helps us in various ways to reduce the time and effort to prepare food. For cooking, most of people nowadays can take advantage of microwave ovens, refrigerators, and electronic blenders. These products of the high techniques have changed the cooking process simplely and effectively.
In addition, the industrialization transformed the production structure that was integrated 20 years ago to be separated. This division of each industry also caused the geographical segregation, which meant people started to concentrate on their own profession. For example, a factory laborer who lives in city is now considered to buy his food from a farmer living in countryside. This change also has driven people to deploy less time for preparing food since food became one of the products sold in supermarkets.
Furthermore, the change of gender roll role also makes this trend more visible. 20 years ago, more women worked in house for full time, which meant they had more time to prepare food. However, the change of the gender roll role which is represented by more women workers of today, reduced the overall time of cooking because there are not many women who stay at home to cook. As a result, many parts of catering now becomes the responsibility of the institution such as school, not of individuals. For example, when both of parents are workers, kids are prone to be catered by other facilities such as schools and daycare centers.
Considering all these facts I mentioned above, you easily can reach to the conclusion that in these time people put less time to prepare food than people of 20 years ago did. For the advent of the high techniques, the change of whole industrial structure, and the change of the gender stereotypes, people are now deliberated from the tediously long process for preparing food.
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