It infuriated me that I wasn’t allowed to take shop or drafting in middle school or high school, but was required to take home economics. I was the oldest girl in a family of 8 children, with 4 older brothers, so my cooking and sewing skills were well-developed by middle school. I didn’t need or want more home ec.
It infuriated me that I wasn’t allowed to take shop or drafting in middle school or high school, but was required to take home economics. I was the oldest girl in a family of 8 children, with 4 older brothers, so my cooking and sewing skills were well-developed by middle school. I didn’t need or want more home ec.
With three brothers, I never had or is envy (except when hiking in the woods) but frequently had great envy of their freedom to do SO much more than I. At an all-girls school, shop wasn’t even a thing. How I would have lived to learn auto mechanics. On the other hand, Home Econ was also not offered. It was all about liberal arts... to become “educated wives.” Ack!
It infuriated me that I wasn’t allowed to take shop or drafting in middle school or high school, but was required to take home economics. I was the oldest girl in a family of 8 children, with 4 older brothers, so my cooking and sewing skills were well-developed by middle school. I didn’t need or want more home ec.
With three brothers, I never had or is envy (except when hiking in the woods) but frequently had great envy of their freedom to do SO much more than I. At an all-girls school, shop wasn’t even a thing. How I would have lived to learn auto mechanics. On the other hand, Home Econ was also not offered. It was all about liberal arts... to become “educated wives.” Ack!