The menu of choices might include typing, band and home economics, as well as special academic classes.
In today's higher education institutions of Japan, the subject of home economics is also given such names as life science, life environmental science or human environmental science and etc.
The development of home economics may not only enhance womens employment and lower womens unemployment rate; but also ease the pressure caused by housework and promote womens development.
"When I was a high school counselor 20 years ago, I had many parents say, 'I want my daughter to take home economics because she's just going to get married,'"says Nancy Perry, executive director of the American School Counselor Association.
Most of us have no desire to forswear energy use entirely, like No Impact Man. But we all have the incentive of basic home economics.
Her reason was that math was something she was good at but probably wouldn't pursue on her own,as she would literature or home economics.
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