1. The field was known as Home Science in New Zealand. The term ‘Home Economics’ is used in the United States. Domestic Science referred to the curriculum in girls’ secondary schools in New Zealand and Household Science was a term used in Canada. See here Carolyn M. Goldstein, Creating Consumers: Home czonomists in Twentieth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 141–70
2. Ruby Heap, ‘From the Science of Housekeeping to the Science of Nutrition: Pioneers in Canadian Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Household Science’, in Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women’s Professional Work, ed. Elizabeth M. Smyth, et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).
3. Tanya Fitzgerald, ‘An Absent Presence: Women Professors at the University of New Zealand, 1911–1961’, Journal of Educational Administration and History 39, 3 (2007): 239–53.
4. Julia Bush, ‘Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties: Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain’, History of Education 34, 4 (2002): 387–405.
5. Joyce Goodman, Andrea Jacobs, Fiona Kisby et al., ‘Travelling Careers: Overseas Migration Patterns in the Professional Lives of Women Attending Girton and Newnham before 1939’, History of Education 40, 2 (2011): 179–96