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 Cooking
Cooking
Since food preparation was central to
homemaking, cooking is one of the earliest
disciplines in home economics. Early home
economics programs taught women how to
cook a balanced meal, and included food
safety and preservation. Additionally, they
studied how to properly set a table and
learned how to host meals, not only for their
immediate families, but for larger groups as
well. This element of traditional economics
still exists today for both men and women in
culinary schools, culinary programs for
family and consumer sciences students, and
in nutrition degrees.
 CHILD
CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT
In addition to cooking and nutrition,
home economics students were taught
how to rear children. This included
learning about the stages of child
development and how to correctly
respond to children at each stage.
Today, students who study family and
consumer sciences still learn child
development, which has become so
significant that it is, in many places,
it's own major.
 Education
Educationand
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Community
Awareness
Awareness
Since women were the first educators
for their children, teaching them basic
reading and math skills before they
entered school, it was significant for
them to understand how best to teach
these skills. Though education and
community awareness, which
included moral and ethical lessons,
were originally a part of the home
economics education, it has become
so significant today that elementary
education has branched into its own
field of study -- but one that is still
dominated by women.
Home Management and
Home Management and
Design
Design
Early women who studied home
economics learned the elements of
design in order to better decorate and
care for their homes. This area of
study also included cleaning and
organization, which was significant
because homemakers were expected
to keep the house clean and
organized. Today, individuals who
study family and consumer sciences
use these skills to enter design fields
where they thrive as designers,
decorators, organization gurus and
real estate staging experts.
 Budgeting
Budgetingand
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Economics
Economics
In addition to cooking, child rearing,
home planning and sewing, home
economics students learned how to
budget. Because women did all, or
most, of the family shopping, they
were expected to understand how to
spend wisely and make the most
judicious use of available funds.
Today, this traditional element of
home economics is still relevant in
family and consumer science
programs as students learn to properly
budget, balance and invest income.
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