Girls who like football or boys who like cooking might not have liked the ’60s!

Attitudes about what girls and boys should like were still very old fashioned and Secondary school lessons were often divided into classes of girls or boys. In some schools, girls would take subjects such as domestic science (Home Economics) and boys would take technical skills/woodwork. Girls were expected to like sewing, cooking and domestic chores and were even taught how to iron clothes – although the irons used in the classroom weren’t electric at that time.