编号：E-2023-9-2
题目：Home Economics and Women’s Gateway to Science
作者：Michael J. Andrews, Yiling Zhao
联系方式：Yiling Zhao, yilzhao@pku.edu.cn
摘要： We propose that collegiate home economics programs in the early 20th century introduced a generation of women to chemical and biological sciences. Using college-level data from the 1910 Commissioner of Education report and a collection of historical college yearbooks spanning 1900-1940, we document that a 10 percentage points increase in the share of women in home economics led to a roughly 3 percentage points increase in the share of women majoring in science. We also show that colleges with historical home economics programs have higher shares of women studying biology in years since 1965.
