Excerpt from Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home
Housekeeping is not only the oldest, most fundamental and complex of all professions, but modern success in it is more difficult to attain than success in factory, warehouse, transportation or shop, because it must be attained by women working alone, and with many purposes. Men in work and play have specialized in groups along a single path, for a single end. Women have specialized not as a group, but as individuals along all paths, for many ends.
There are six distinct classes of activities: production, transportation, manufacture, storage, exchange and personal service. The boy is prepared for 15 years or more to co-operate with others in mastering one particular part of one of these activities. A man will give his life to the specialization and standardization of the methods and tools for a single oft repeated operation. Housekeeping, if a kitchen garden or milking is included, covers all six activities. Often without preparation a young woman working alone, without the discipline of the group, expects to be an adept in all six fields and in all parts of each field at once!
Mrs. Frederick has succeeded in specializing and standardizing the tools and methods for the many ever changing occupations of the home. This was an exceedingly difficult undertaking which she has admirably completed.
Man is irresponsible, woman is deeply responsible and, therefore, she evolved and built all the foundations of civilization and still holds onto them in her life. These foundations are home, cooking, textiles, pottery, storage, manufacturing, music, language, medicine and teaching.
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