Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to ...

Home economics is not just sourdough bread and sewing machines. The oft-misunderstood field spans science and nutrition and promotes that cooking and cleaning is undervalued as a form of labor.

“Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman to go to MIT — that alone blew my mind,” Dreilinger said. “And she set a standard for what home economics could be and how it started — a ...