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I really do question the validity of this..seems just a bit outrageous to believe.
And it's not just a question of whether or not it was once published, but if it was actually the standard adhered back then, and how different the viewpoint of the author was compared to others.
I mean there are probably still people today that would write a similar piece to that, but it does not mean it's representative of anything.
Then again Snopes says:
Whether the piece at hand is a genuine excerpt from a yet-undiscovered home economics textbook, it is nonetheless a relatively accurate reflection of the mainstream vision of a woman's appointed role in post-war America, as evinced by such educational training films as "The Home Economics Story"
So that may all be true and dandy.. but then there's this piece too:
An image purported to be a digitized photocopy of the 13 May 1955 edition of a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly circulates with this message, but the graphic is a fake, created by simply adding text around a 1950s-era magazine graphic. (The image itself even bears an "Advertising Archives" legend along its side.)