It's time to bring back home economicsThis was at a time when home economics was taught in nearly every high school in the country, though largely only to girls. A few decades later, home ...

A home economics lesson in 1953. In a new book on the history of home economics, author Danielle Dreilinger writes about how the profession created a “back door” for women in science, business ...

In the last published brief from the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences in 2013, the number of students enrolled in a home economics class was a little over 3.4 million, which were ...

She was a Black woman who got a bachelor's degree, started running home economics at Tuskegee, where she married Booker T. Washington, and became an enormously influential advocate for improving the ...

In her revelatory new book “The Hidden History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live,” journalist Danielle Dreilinger offers a much ...

Hard science was no longer required for a degree in the field. In the 1960s and 1970s, home economics, like so much of America, began turning toward a therapeutic approach to the home.