home economics movement

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The home economics movement was a late 19th- and early 20th-century reform effort that professionalized domestic skills like cooking, nutrition, and household management through scientific principles and formal education, particularly for women.

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instanceOf educational reform movement
social reform movement
women’s movement
aimedAt improving efficiency of household labor
improving family health and nutrition
preparing women for roles as homemakers and wage earners
providing vocational training for women
raising status of domestic work
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfWork domestic science
family and consumer sciences
home economics
hasMainFocus child care and family relations
consumer education
cooking education
household management
nutrition education
professionalization of domestic work
sanitation and hygiene in the home
scientific management of the home
hasNotableEvent Lake Placid Conferences on Home Economics
hasNotableOrganization American Home Economics Association
hasNotableProponent Ellen Swallow Richards
Flora Rose
Martha Van Rensselaer
Melvil Dewey
implementedThrough college and university departments
cooperative extension programs
land-grant colleges
secondary school courses
settlement houses
women’s clubs
influenced consumer protection efforts
domestic science curricula
extension services in rural communities
home economics education
household technology adoption
influencedBy Progressive Era
surface form: Progressive Era reform

nutrition science
public health movement
scientific management
women’s higher education movement
relatedConcept Progressive Era
surface form: Progressive Era domestic reform

domestic science movement
scientific housekeeping
significantPeriod early 20th century
startTime late 19th century
typicalParticipant female college students
middle-class women
rural farm women

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Boston Cooking School movement home economics movement
Janet McKenzie Hill movement home economics movement