Bringing Back Home Ec

Last week, the NY Times ran an editorial about reintroducing home ec as a way to fight obesity. Here is a link to the story.

As I have written: For too long, women’s pages, which included food, have been looked at as sections that simply reinforced a traditional role for women. This was once how home economics was viewed, too. It was simply a place that reinforced women’s traditional roles. As one home economics scholar wrote, “Home economics has not fared well at the hands of historians. Until recently women’s historians largely dismissed home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen.” In recent years, historians have re-evaluated the value of home economics and in doing so, raised the status of the field. It is time to do the same for food sections.

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