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[quote=Anonymous][quote]HYP/Ivy don’t offer because they never offered them.  They were all male, except for Cornell, when those were majors were the options for women. [/quote]

This is exactly correct regarding Home Economics/Human Ecology.  My grandmother graduated from Cornell in the early 1930s prepared to become a dietitician (first-gen American-born, first-gen college student).  She loved chemistry and wanted to be a doctor.  She assessed that career path to be unattainable so pursued dietetics as an alternate until marriage.  The coursework was quite scientific and rigorous.  Her younger brother later became a doctor, partially due to her assistance.

My mother, her daughter-in-law, got a Human Ecology undergrad and then a Masters in Child Development to become an elementary school teacher.  From mother's  comments, I understood that students who studied textiles were frequently the children of New Yorkers in the garment business.  No different than sending sons to business school to learn about real estate or Wall-Street style investing.

My mother chose Cornell Human Ecology because the other Ivies discriminated against women by not admitting them at all or limiting them to the related women's colleges.[/quote]

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