Although there has been a resurgence of interest in life skills and domestic housework education particularly among college students, home economics remains dwarfed by language arts, math, science and ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Whole Foods Market launches Home Ec 365, a digital curriculum designed to modernize the fundamentals of home economics and put a brilliant twist on the basics.

Long, long ago, in a land without cell phones, iPads, internet, social media, or really good takeout, Southern girls took Home Ec (as in Home Economics). And while it was likely the aim of school ...

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 ...

What do you picture when you hear the phrase “home economics?” Do you think of a high school classroom full of sewing machines, pots and pans, mops and brooms — in other words, a vestige of our sexist ...

Balancing checkbooks? Cooking healthy food? Raising kids and diapering babies? Building healthy friendships? A lot of those basic skills we call "adulting"? There used to be a name for the class that ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Virginia Postrel THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power ...