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Based on a qualitative research design the employment biographies of 15 female engineers are examined. The women work in the public sector and have children up to the age of six. Their personal needs were worked out, which design the employment biographies. These needs are genuine or depend on the family household. The latter may dominate the formers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Needs and the satisfaction of needs are closely linked to the institution of the private household and its central tasks. With a home economics perspective, everyday practices associated with needs and their integration into social and societal contexts can be recorded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Everyday life, not only of young people, is proving to be commercialized. In other words, many actions require money. Consumption is decoupled and ‚fleeting‘, it does not satisfy any concrete needs, and even the possession of a good is no longer presupposed (e.g., Sharing). Consumption options become important. Since tangible references disappear, pedagogy must enable to discern conditions and consequences of modern consumption. More than ever con-sumption is shaping everyday life and everyday culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]