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Food science is one of the best visible practical sciences we have. Coming in off the truck, wheat is highly variable. It may say 'tipo 000' on the bag, but to guarantee it has the right moisture content, hardness, gluten to do what pizza base needs, or pasta needs, it has to be scienced by practicing scienters.

When that can of fruit bulges, because you kept it 2 years beyond its shelf life, somebody had to do a LOT of work to make sure it lasted that long.

During wartime, substitute, which is what aquafaba is to eggwhite, is all down to food science. What exactly IS the role of the eggwhite in this recipe? If you add it before the salt, does it change? What about that vinegar? if we used lemon juice does it work as well? Why?

my neighbor at one time worked on canning technology as a scientist in the Army. He was very proud of canning food well, to prevent starvation. I made the mistake of speaking poorly of it once, since fresh food is abundant where I live, and has better nutrition. I thought about it for years afterwards, because he was sharp in his response. Not everyone has the benefits of fresh food in this world. Baking silly cakes is not the worst thing in the world. Its an emotional topic if you go deeper into it.
yea. this++

knew an engineer who worked in a butter factory, making ghee. ghee is heated, clarified butter. it has really tight temperature constraints. too high: tastes burned. to low? solidifies. His life was a nightmare. "that didn't work. Lets strip all these greasy pipes down, and get the thick sludge out, and try again while the hired-help disposes of 10 tonnes of semi-liquified, congealing butterfat"

>since fresh food is abundant where I live, and has better nutrition.

Can you tell more about this?

I'm happy these women were out there, but is it fair to say that they were unsung? After all, they themselves call it the most glamorous job available?
It's not clear in the article, but I didn't get the impression that it was common knowledge that Betty Crocker's advice and recipes were actually the work of a collection of women. What the article did talk about was the fact that they really weren't taken seriously within the company. It was probably the most glamorous job available in a time when there were very, very few opportunities for women and the idea of women working outside the home at all was frowned upon.
> the idea of women working outside the home at all was frowned upon.

That is a pretty common misconception, although understandable since it was 100 years ago. Women who finished school, while unmarried, was fully expected to help support their parents and society at large by working outside the home at suitable work places. After the second world war, spurred by an a worker shortage because of the war and male only military drafts, this got expanded to slowly also include married women and more professions. Acceptance for married women who wanted to remain working was however a slow cultural change.

Because the work force was primarily young and recently out of school, they weren't treated with much respect. It was also expected that they would quit as soon they got married, so any long term professional relationship was impossible.

Then the men came home from war and many of the women who kept the country going were encouraged to get the heck out of the workforce and go back to keeping the house. Acceptance for married women to have a career was a struggle that lasted past the late 70's and honestly still affects women today. Acceptance of a woman being single either on purpose or being unable to find a husband is pretty dang recent and still not universal in the US.

You really think it was the women being young and recently out of school that caused their bosses and coworkers not to respect them?

The surviving men, now older and many with life lasting wound, did come back and with the G.I. Bill got sent to higher education. After that many got work through war contacts. Young men did not exist in the work force. Conscription mean it wasn't a choice between going to work or go to military. Every male when they finished school went to military, and during two world wars most of them died as a result.

Were 18-20 year old fresh out of school treated different than a 30 year old that been through conscription and war. I can't say because I didn't lived through that period. What I can say is that people do treat 20 years old fresh out of school with a different level of respect than someone who been in the industry for 10 years. People also treat others different if they been working for 10 years and expecting to continue for an other 10 years, or if they are fresh recruits and only expect them to stay at the job for a handful of years.

All of that is however beyond the point of what I wrote above. I said that women were expect to work outside the home at a very specific period on their lives. The only one given exception to this was the aristocrats or millionares who could shield both their sons and daughters.

I'm going to need to look up some numbers, but the US, which is where we're talking about, didn't join WWII until fairly late in the war. I know you don't literally mean that there were no young men in the workforce, but they weren't leaving at 18 and coming back at 30 years old. The war didn't last that long, lol.
True, but is anyone singing today? Perhaps the headline should have been "The Forgotten Women of [...]" instead. Less ambigious.