History of Families and Family Resource Managment

By jlevern

  • Origin of Family

    Family was created thousands of years ago but no specific date of when. There is evidence of family in the Bible and in hieroglyphics.

  • Birth Ellen Swallow Richards

    Dunstable, Massachusetts

  • Move for better education

    Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts

  • Before Industrial Revolution

    Before the industrial revolution there was large house holds which would make it easier to run a household

  • Ellen starts at Vassar College

    Began as a Third year student

  • Ellen graduates Vassar College

  • MIT application

    Ellen applies for MIT

  • Accepted to MIT

    Ellen is accepted to MIT as a "special student"

  • Water Testing

    Begins water testing with Professor Nichols

  • Robert Proposes

    Professor Robert Richards proposes marriage to Ellen multiple times

  • Teaching and Graduates

    teaches at Girls' High School of Boston and graduates MIT

  • Ellen and Richard's New start

    Ellen and Robert marry. Move to Jamaica Plain on Elliot street because they wanted more air and space and city.

  • Woman's Laboratory opens

  • Ellen's Advancments

    Ellen and students does a study about adulteration of foods, which becomes the first Food and Drug Act.

  • First Women

    For American Institute if Mining and Metallurgical Engineers

  • During Industrial Revolution

    The work force began and men were put to work while women had to run the house hold and raise children by themselves.

  • Co-founder

    Association of Collegiate Alumnae (American Association of University Women

  • MIT New Chemistry Lab

  • Ellen's Second study

    The outcome of purity tables becomes nations first water quality standard

  • Ellen establishes New England Kitchen

  • Rumford Kitchen

    Ellen opens kitchen in Chicago World's Fair

  • First Annual Lake Placid conference

  • American Home Economics Association

    Ellen was the first President

  • Consumer Education

    Family and Consumer Science was known as Home economics before becoming Consumer Education

  • American Dream

    The American Dream Family was a husband, wife, and two children. Which the father was the main source of income while the mother was a housewife.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    The Civil Rights Movement began which brought light to the inequality of women/wives and people of color in the workplace and the house. This start a chain reaction of chance in both

  • Family Dynamic

    Lots of changes to what the meaning of family is. There became a normal idea of single-families, same-sex families, and mixed-race families. Now the definition of family is harder to define.

  • Cited Sources

    Ellen Swallows Richards Timeline: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118923849.oth1
    American Association of Family Consumer Science: https://www.aafcs.org/partnership/about-aafcs
    Info for Ellen Swallow Richards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI_I61eOzY
    Family Resource Management 4th Edition