Back in the olden days, schools offered students (specifically, female students) the chance to hone their homemaking skills by taking a home economics class.
Meanwhile, the boys in their grade weren't expected to learn the same skills and were off in their own class learning how to nail pieces of wood together like men.
To be fair, this was during a time when the general expectation was that women were headed down a path of domestic bliss, filled with plenty of cooking and cleaning for the future family, so they kind of had to know their way around the kitchen and a sewing machine.