Home Economics Courses and the Higher Institutions of Learning

1920 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 534-547
Author(s):  
Agnes Fay Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Home Economics ◽  
Economics Courses ◽  
Higher Institutions

The Nature and Effects of Differential Access to Education in Ga Society

Africa ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
Economics Courses ◽  
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Opening ParagraphWhat happens when women are denied access, over a long period of time, to formal education of the type men are given? This paper is a preliminary examination of the effects on Central Accra Ga society of this process, which began in a significant form in the nineteenth century. It posits a detrimental effect, not only on the women but also on the whole society, and on the relation between the sexes, of the systematic channelling of men into Western style education, while women were encouraged to stay in trading and home production, or given the equivalent of ‘home economics’ courses if they were sent to school.

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