re: #234 Bubblehead II

Back in the day, Home Ec was one of the sexually segregated courses. It consisted of 4 courses. Cooking, sewing, (home) economics and typing. I passed the first three. Typing was a total failure. I am still a hunt and pick typist.

At my junior high, home ec was one semester; mom had to browbeat the principal to let me take woodshop instead (first girl ever at that school).

She talked me into taking the typing class, by noting that “a girl who can type will never have to wait tables.” There were a few guys in the class, because their fathers had told them “a guy who can type works at division headquarters, instead of humping a rifle through the jungle.”