Housewives

In modern China, housewives are no longer as common, especially in the largest cities and other urban areas. Nearly all women work simply because one person's income is insufficient to support the family, a decision made easier by the fact that it is common for Chinese grandparents to watch after their grandchildren before they are old enough to go to school or are very young. Nonetheless, the number of Chinese housewives has been steadily rising in recent years as China's economy expands.
Formal education
In previous decades, there were a large amount of mandatory courses for young women to learn the skills of homemaking. In high school, courses included sewing, cooking, nutrition, home economics, family and consumer science (aka F.A.C.S) and food and cooking hygiene. More recently, these courses have been mostly abolished, and many women in high school and college would be more likely to explore resources on the more academic topics of child development, child psychology and managing children's behavior.