sg31 wrote:In those days most young married women didn't work, they had children to look after....
It was more discriminatory than that: in all but manual and/or menial jobs, when women married they were normally fired*. This wasn't just private employers: the bar remained in the Home Civil Service until 1946 and for foreign postings until 1973.
My late mother-in-law worked 'at the counter' in an upmarket London department store. When she married, she was told to leave.
To return to Degustatory matters: one issue for a married woman without children was that the husband may come home for a cooked lunch - lunch being the main meal of the day for the 'workman'. And this was probably exacerbated by the wider availability of cheap rented housing rather then rented rooms. A rented room doesn't of course have cooking facilities which meant that the occupant/s ate cooked lunch in 'chop-house' near work.
* - except for the duration WW1 and WW2; these did wonders for establishing that women were every bit as good as men, even in skilled jobs that traditionally needed an apprenticeship such as metal turning and finishing.