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American Home Economics Association

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The American Home Economics Association was founded in December 1908 at a summer conference in Lake Placid, New York. Ellen Swallow Richards, a chemist and pioneer in the home economics movement, was elected as its first president. The association aimed to establish standards, course outlines, and study guides for the burgeoning field of domestic science, which was later named home economics. Richards also established the association's Journal of Home Economics and was responsible for overseeing the teaching of home economics in public schools.1

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