Home Economics departments were > 90% women. Even though nearly half of STEM bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women in 2016, the majority of those degrees were awarded in the fields once encompassed by Home Economics, including Psychology, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences But even these gains did not translate into women moving up the academic ladder. While women had made up 50% of Life Sciences doctorates since 2004, only 26% of full professors in Life Sciences were women by 2017 Read more at: feministscientist.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-home-economics #homeeconomics #historyofscience #homeecnomics #womeninstem #womenengineers #womeninsteam #feministscience #academicwomen#feministsciencestudies Edited · 6w