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Ellen Swallow Richards
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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen was the founder of Home Economics in the US. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1882 she published a book on chemistry of cooking. -
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Richards MIT History
In 1875 sh appealed to the Women’s Education Association of Boston for help in establishing a laboratory at MIT for the instruction of women in chemistry. The Women’s Laboratory opened in 1876 with Professor John M. Ordway in charge, assisted by Richards. She held the position of instructor in chemistry and mineralogy in the Women’s Laboratory until it closed in 1883. From 1884 to her death in 1911, Richards was instructor in sanitary chemistry at MIT -
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Resources for Families
Families have access to resources such as income, inheritance, and social resources. This providing access to food, shelter, and later on assets such as a home, car, or savings. -
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Evolution of Family
The family dynamics have changed from a mom, dad, and two children, to a single mom with her children, or even a blended family with two sets of parents raising children, bi racial and even LGBTQ families -
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Evolution of Families
The family Dynamic has changed over the years. From the traditional American family of a mom and dad with biological children, to blended families, single parent families, families in the LGBTQ. Family looks different. -
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Home Economics Field
The field began to better change the scripts of both men and women during the civil rights movement. This was moving into the era of women working outside of the home and including in ways of understanding human development, food, nutrition, and clothing -
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Resources Management
Resource management has a long history and an interdisciplinary base borrowing from and contributing to such fields as economics, organizational behavior, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The discipline was originally called home management. -
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Economics and Management
Systems and economic theories, influence the way management is taught, practiced, and studied. Economic theory assumes that people seek to maximize their satisfaction through the decisions that they make. In economics, individuals are seen as rational and acquisitive. Management recognizes that although individuals want to increase satisfaction, they often behave in less than rational ways. -
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Family and Consumer Science
The field of home economics expanding into family and consumer sciences. It has the core values but has evolved into many different professions. -
Family Resources and management
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Gray areas
Cohabitation is defined as unmarried couple. These have created a legal debate for those choosing to share their lives together will be legally responsible for living expenses to have same rights as a married couples. In 2015 married same sex couples have equal access to federal benefits. -
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Gray Areas
The gray area was discovered due to people cohabitating. This could be individuals that wanted to spend their lives together without the legal marriage. Legal debate about federal benefits being available to them. Same sex legally married couples have access to federal benefits. -
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Census Bureau
Census defines family as the householder and one or more people in the house related by birth, marriage, or adoption. -
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Census Bureau
The census defines a family as a house holder with family members related by birth, marriage, or adoption -
Family Structure
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Evolution of Families