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What Would An Actual MRS Degree Look Like?


jenny_islander

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When my husband was in college at Michigan Tech, and then grad school at MIT, there were not a lot of women in the engineering field. At Michigan the ratio of men to women was huge and the joke, on campus, was the women were working towards their MRS.

I was not amused when I learned of this, epecially when I heard the story at a reunion in Michigan and these 50+ year old men were still remembring it. I reminded my rocket scientist he married and old hippie from Berkeley--he got the message.

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I often wonder why bother with sending a girl to college to learn to be a homemaker? It seems the best place to learn is AT HOME. I can understand performing certain tasks to a certain standard if one chooses to make money off of it i.e culinary school to learn to be a professional chef, fashion design to work in the industry etc. However, if you only want to do it for family use, it seems like college would be really overkill. Maybe that's just me.

I'm not a homebody myself. I try to keep the place clean, to decorate the walls, do the laundry and dishes etc, but I hardly need to go to class to learn to do that at home. Heck, I bet a lot of cleaning ladies who do this for a living don't need to do this in college in order to do be hired!

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GMIL is now deceased. However, she went to a secular college in the 40s and earned a B.A. in Home Economics, marrying her DH right at graduation.

However, she was not fundie, and she was never a SAHM either. She was Civil Service and ran the Housekeeping Dept of an Army base in the midwest for 25 years until she retired.

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I think it's fundie's way of telling the non-fundies that they do allow their daughters to go to college and get a degree.

Reminds me of how Gothard has a list of approved degrees/careers for women that they can get. Love how most of them involve being a homemaker.

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I discovered through Facebook that a Mormon girl I was friends with in middle school wound up going to BYU and majoring in "Marriage and Family Studies." That sounds like a MRS degree to me. And yes, she got married before graduation. Now she's a SAHM who posts constantly about how afraid she is that gay marriage will ruin family values and Obama will "bring socialism to America" so I had to block her status updates for my own sanity.

I had a similar experience with a Mormon friend from high school. She went to BYU, majored in Marriage and Family Studies, got married at 20, had a baby at 21, and promptly dropped out to be a SAHM while her returned missionary hubby worked part time and went to school full time. Now she's all about her forever family and railing against evil working mothers.

Some state universities still have Home Economics-type majors, in the form of Human Development and Family Studies or Food Science. I know a girl with a Food Science degree and it's fascinating - very heavy on chemistry and nutrition, and most definitely not an MRS degree.

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Many household science programs (McGill is an example in Montreal) morphed into into institutions granting degrees to dieticians etc. Family studies is alive and well in secular universities, but I think it's more of a sociological degree (obviously not training for the fundie wife lifestyle)

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Many household science programs (McGill is an example in Montreal) morphed into into institutions granting degrees to dieticians etc. Family studies is alive and well in secular universities, but I think it's more of a sociological degree (obviously not training for the fundie wife lifestyle)

Yes I almost went to a school that didn't have a Social Work bachelors program so I was going to get my degree in Family and Child studies which would have been fairly similar. I guess the child development classes would be helpful. I know some of things I learned in lifespan and nutrition were helpful with me deciding how I would want to raise my son, but I also learned more about myself and how the big bad world works.

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