Finally, a Bachelors degree for women only:

[USA Today]  NASHVILLE — The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offers coursework in Greek and Hebrew, in archaeology, in the philosophy of religion and — starting this fall — in how to cook and sew.

Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles.

It will offer a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking. The program is only open to women.

I’m not making light of knowing how to cook and sew — nor how to home-can green beans without the risk of botulism, how to bake a perfect cherry cobbler from fresh fruit and basic ingredients, to make a quilt strictly by hand from scrap fabrics, nor how to keep a family together for a couple of decades… those are some of the most important things I know.

I didn’t have to pay tuition to get it, though.  My tuition went for the study of computer science, which is much more difficult (though not impossible) to teach one’s self.

Certainly, I grew up watching my mother and grandmothers do most of those things (although I have begun teaching Mom to quilt).  Unfortunately, since my mother was so skilled at the home arts, I didn’t have much opportunity to practice those skills until I was on my own and had to learn out of necessity.

That the Baptists feel a need for a Bachelor’s degree in homemaking seems to me transparently laughable:  it’s not a BA program, but the path to an "Mrs."  Or, perhaps to create a pool of appropriately knowledge-limited women who might make suitable wives for those who aren’t up for a little intellectual challenge now and then.

I love my husband, I respect my husband, but to defer to him intellectually at all times would be doing him such a disservice.  He would be thoroughly bored.   As would most outside the world of the Taliban.