domestic skills
Cooking and cleaning
Domestic skills are the practical abilities needed to maintain a household: cooking, cleaning, laundry, basic repairs, budgeting.
The term often appears in discussions of gender roles, since these skills were historically assigned to women.
The home economics class taught domestic skills like meal planning and sewing.
- babysittingCaring for others' children temporarily
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
- moppingCleaning floors with water
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- bakingCooking with dry heat
preserving · frying · laundry · folding clothes · sewing · fermenting · pet care · comforting · emotional support · first aid · eldercare · budgeting · time management · meal planning · grocery shopping · home cooking · decluttering · dusting
- homemakingcooking, cleaning, laundry, recipes, baking
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
domestic skillsprofessional skills
Work-related abilities and knowledge
occupational skills · workplace skills · vocational skills · industrial skills · technical skills
domestic skillscareer training
Preparation for specific occupations
vocational training · professional education · professional training · formal education · academic credentials
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