Editing Home economics (section)

===Italy===
[[File:Ada Gobetti.jpg|alt=Italian Politician|thumb|247x247px|Ada Gobetti  (1902–1968)]]
In 1945, just days before the Liberation of World War II, [[Ada Gobetti]] stated, "The most difficult problem will be that of the housewife. It will be one of the most difficult to resolve if one wants to create a new society."<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Tasca |first1=Luisa |last2=Hilwig |first2=Stuart |date=2004-06-25 |title=The "Average Housewife" in Post-World War II Italy |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/169956 |journal=Journal of Women's History |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=92–115 |doi=10.1353/jowh.2004.0055 |s2cid=144281256 |issn=1527-2036}}</ref>  She wanted women, family, work, and society to form a new relationship through education and organization of the housewives. Although people were not taught formal classes of home economics, during the 1950s and 1960s home economics manuals had been fully published.<ref name=":3" /> These manuals were compulsory for children to read in school. These manuals focused heavily on how to be a good housewife during a new era of transformation and how to adapt to new behaviors and habits.<ref name=":3" />

Starting from the [[Gentile reform]] of 1923, home economics was taught in the lower middle school and in the new unified middle school established in 1963. The name changed to Technical Applications, differentiated into male and female, which was taught until 1977 when it changed to the title of Technical Education, which no longer differed in relation to the sex of the pupils.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |title=Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Facism, and Culture |year=1995 |jstor=10.5749/j.ctttt2tw |isbn=978-0816626502}}</ref>{{page needed|date=July 2021}}