> In Norway, cooking, nutrition and house work is a subject in school called heimkunnskap (Home knowledge) In the US, the equivalent subject was called Home Ec

> In Norway, cooking, nutrition and house work is a subject in school called heimkunnskap (Home knowledge) In the US, the equivalent subject was called Home Economics, and was focused on women. This article goes through the history of the field: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/what-happened-to-home-economics-history-feminism-education https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/what-happened-to-home-eco... (keep in mind that the publication is biased, as all are) > in the 1950s and ’60s [...] in many cases, home ec departments were eliminated, renamed, or folded into other departments, and funding was cut (although administrators’ salaries typically rose). “Administrators, all male then, held skeptical and hostile attitudes toward home economics, even as they expressed unabashed ignorance about the field,” Margaret W. Rossiter writes