Did Home Economics Empower Women?
Save this story for later. Of all the paradoxes in the paradoxical field known as home economics, perhaps the most peculiar is the practice house, with its practice baby. Colleges and universities that offered home-ec majorsâand there were many in the twentieth century, including historically Black colleges, land-grant universities, and Ivy League institutionsâoften had a cottage or an apartment on campus where female home-ec students could keep house. Some of them were preparing for careers in education or industry, but most saw home ec as training for their inevitable futures as w...
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