Housewives

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.
Modern mothers
Some contemporary women are leaving the paid workforce and concentrating full-time on parenting. Many of these women have left the paid workforce so that they can focus on raising their children, particularly through the children's early years before entering kindergarten. There is considerable variability within the stay-at-home mother population with regard to their intent to return to the paid workforce. Some plan to work from their homes, some will do part-time work, some intend to return to part or full-time work when their children have reached school age, some may increase their skill sets by returning to higher education, and others may find it economically feasible to not return to the paid workforce.