This podcast (1) helped me appreciate the intelligence and the mandate of the originators of Home Economics as a vocation. Founding team includes the first woman engineer from MIT.

Edited: Added the book (2) whose author was interviewed for the podcast.

(1) https://omny.fm/shows/gastropod/easy-a-the-superrad-story-of...

(2) https://bookshop.org/books/the-secret-history-of-home-econom...