Home Economic Changes In The 60's

In the 20th century, Home Economics was a very distinct part in family’s lifestyles. Back then, it was mostly up to the women to do the early home economics work. They canned peaches, sewed, and other regular home economics work. Women back then claimed that it was “A conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen”. Back in those days, it was believed that it was a woman’s place to be in the kitchen. Though this theory was blown out of the water more than half of a century later, major social role changes came in the late 50’s and 60’s. As these changes progressed into the 21st century, men and women worked side by side in Home Economics and Family Consumer Science.
Home Economics was first started with Ellen Swallow Richards, who was the first