Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to ...

What today’s youth need are “Adulting 101” classes. Home economics once taught students how to wash clothing, prepare food, clean a home and notably how to support a family and raise children.

Home Economics as Feminist Ideology I bring all this up, because Home Ec is often the butt of a running joke—the '50’s June Cleaver stay-at-home mom. The retro "trad wife" skillset.

We once had a solution for that: Home Economics. Introduced in the early 1900s, Home Ec was designed to “ teach principles of domesticity.” Most people today remember it as a cooking and ...

Adapt. Repeat” and my five tours in home economics paid off: My sewing skills helped me pay for a degree in electrical engineering/computer science and get my first job at Hewlett-Packard.