The "new" home economics focuses on combating sex stereotypes, living skills that include balancing work and family, outcomes-based education that integrates academic and vocational skills, encouragement of male enrollment, and helping students deal with serious social problems. (SK)

Iowa State University's curriculum guide, Balancing Work and Family, includes units on demographic trends, multiple roles, parental influences on life-style, long-range planning, sources of role conflict, time and money management, demands of careers, determinants of job satisfaction, public policy, influences on career choice, work attitudes, and…