57-Book Study: The Secret History of Home Economics with Author Danielle Dreilinger

<p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•    The founders wanted home economics to be a professional field that gave women career opportunities in business and in science and then teaching and that it helped housewives and women working in the home to do their work more quickly and more efficiently and to focus on what they actually needed to focus on with housekeeping so that they would have time to do other things, whether that be studying or a paying job, or taking care of their children. (5:55)</p><p>•    I looked up in the 1960s, the 1950s and 1960s when the feminine mystique and post-war World War II era of repression was really under way. It's just extraordinary how young women got married and then for that matter, and how many women, did not continue that. They just didn't continue their education at all. I forget the exact numbers, but tons of women just dropped out once they got married, and yeah, for some of them, it was voluntary, but there were also just, in countless careers, that would not let married women work there. (10:19)</p><p>•   The value was appreciation of their clothes, is really what it came down to in the beginning. Well, it was midway through the semester, I found a video, I think I found it on YouTube or something, but it was about the cost of clothing, and it was so impactful for not just for me, but for all my students, that's all that they can talk about for a couple of weeks going, they were able to look at their clothes and go, Oh my gosh, the clothes that I just bought is doing to the world what it's doing, it's tearing apart a community because there's so much waste, and it's destroying water because there's so much water that is used and waste that it's not recycled or up-cycled anymore. (25:47)</p><p>• That is, we do now that is using Google, using YouTube, using all of these technology technological tools that we have at our fingertips at all times. Now, we are constantly inundated with new information and being able to streamline new things and to utilize old understandings w