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
At the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she studied home economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
On Saturday morning the party launched a number of policies including a promise to bring down waits for NHS treatment to no more than a year, and reinstating home economics to schools.
From BBC ● May 16, 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
For a girl who’d had her first sewing lesson in home economics only six months earlier, it really was pretty nice.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
