home economics
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And appliances that reduced some labor often raised the bar: more frequent washing, more cleaning, more elaborate meals, as University of Chicago home economics professor Hazel Kyrk described in “Economic Problems of the Family.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Pupils currently have to learn home economics on rotation, something which has happened with other subjects in the past.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Collins taught home economics in high school and math in junior high before she transitioned into politics, elected clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1975 and then lieutenant governor in 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
According to the Craft Industry Alliance, by 2012 only 3.5 million students were enrolled in home economics classes nationwide, a decrease of 38% over the prior decade.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024
Today, my home economics teacher is teaching us how to sew aprons.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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