Why was cooking class called Home Economics?

Is/was this an Australian thing? Just my school thing?

I assure you, none of us were there for Keynes In The Kitchen. We were kids, we just wanted cookies!

Why would you even make something so creative and important sound so dry? It's not like they didn't want people to take or enjoy the class?

Also the lens of saving money by cooking is real but do you really need to bring the struggle to teenagers?

So many questions...

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