Irrelevant sentence

(A)Preparing family meals used to be a full-time job.(B) Records show women spent about forty-four hours a week preparing meals and cleaning up afterward. (C) However, today they have less time to cook meals as they are about half the country's workforce. (D) Furthermore, their interest in cooking shows has more to do with the idea of a homemade meal than with the ability to do it night after night. (E) They don't want to spend a lot of time making a big meal when they can buy something ready to heat in the microwave.

Is D irrelevant sentence?