"As a radical feminist, I am here addressing the enemy,” activist Robin Morgan told the American Home Economics Association convention in 1972. She believed that home ec had turned women into “a limp, ...

What’s wrong with young people today? It’s a perennial question, but a certain pattern can be detected in the concerns being aired right now. There’s health and nutrition: Almost a third of Americans ...

Forget gourmet dinners for housewives to make -- today's high school home economics courses have enough of a challenge just teaching students to boil noodles and scramble eggs. Now a part of the ...

NORTH BLOOMFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – A home economics class teaches important life skills, but fewer schools are teaching them. Bloomfield High School has found a way to make it relevant and have it make a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fully half the kids pulling homemade wontons out of ovens, arranging stuffed jalapeños on glass plates — and wearing aprons — for the home-ec appetizer ...

Math, science, history and English are all important school subjects for success in the world and the workplace. But “home ec,” short for home economics, also teaches life skills that everyone needs.