We used to have “shop” classes in high school, aka “industrial arts.” These were required classes for boys, while girls were steered to “home ec.”
Kerfuffles ensued, with girls hollering ‘sexism’ for being told that welding, carpentry & auto repair weren’t ‘ladylike’ endeavors; meanwhile, boys wanting to learn to cook & sew were branded ‘sissies.’
Instead of simply opening both curricula (which taught useful life skills) to both sexes, both were eventually removed from public schools altogether & replaced with LGBT & climate change indoctrination.
That’s very sad. Kids learned a lot of useful stuff in those classes - I learned the basics of cooking and sewing, and those basic lessons have stood me well over a lifetime.
My husband is younger than I am, and by the time he was at that level in school, the boys in his region were doing both ‘shop’ and some more ‘domestic’ arts. He learned electrical wiring and some other ‘man’ things, but also learned to sew a little. He enjoyed both. (But he got really bored and dropped out of Scouts, when it went to more ‘artsy-craftsy’ stuff in his area, instead of the more traditional camping and related skills that he had expected.)
It wasn’t offered to girls in my time, to learn some basics of electricity, carpentry, tools and their use; but I would have appreciated that.