My first formal cooking lessons were in public school—the Las Piñas Central Elementary School, which had a very dedicated home economics teacher: Miss Carlos. Primary school in the 1950s meant ...

In eighth grade, they did offer a home economics class, but my mother put her foot down: I would be taking woodworking, no discussion. At best, Mom was well-meaning but confused. (I still have the ...

We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts and home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral ...