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Journalist Danielle Dreilinger is the author of The Secret History of Home Economics, published in May 2021 by W. W. Norton. She was a 2018 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, was named best features writer by the Louisiana Press Association and has received grants or fellowships from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Education Writers Association and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She spent five years covering New Orleans’ nationally contentious education revolution for the Times-Picayune. Before that she produced WGBH’s local news website and wrote for the Boston Globe, most notably a ...more

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Hi, I was wondering have you discovered my dad's cousin Norma Lueders Baker? She is the only woman on the patent for Pampers. Indeed the only one who had actually changed a diaper! It was developed at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati Ohio - She was a brilliant woman who changed the lives of parents the world over! Jane Zinda

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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

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“Richards had found her life’s work: to improve the home, and thus society, through science.”
― Danielle Dreilinger, The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

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“They did not want to overwrite local cultures with American ways. “Unless one is extremely careful there can be great danger from foreign teachers and missionaries trying to impose their way of living from a different civilization,”
― Danielle Dreilinger, The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

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“To underline the intelligence of such work, she gave housework education an intellectual-sounding name: “domestic economy.” And she made an argument that would create jobs for countless women: domestic economy was too important and complex to be left to amateurs—that is, mothers. It had to be formally taught by professional educators.”
― Danielle Dreilinger, The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

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