ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some evidence that cookery is more popular in co-educational schools, but the lack of confirmation in the findings of some study enforces a verdict of 'likely, but not proved'. In view, for example, of the relatively small number of schools arid therefore, of cookery mistresses, the difference in popularity might have been caused by differences in the personalities of the teachers and not by the two types of schooling. The results for needlework were a repetition of those for cookery but in a lower key. The occupation was less popular and it was only very slightly more popular among co-educated girls—the emphasis should decidedly be on equality. In passing it is worth recording that, as in the Second College survey, needlework was much less popular than cookery and about one-third of the girls in both types of school expressed some measure of dislike for it.
