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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did we get here?[/quote]

Its always been there.[/quote]

I don't think that's true.  Something has changed. [/quote]

The only thing that has changed is that Teacher was previously one of the few respectable positions a woman could obtain pre-1950s. That salary was never enough to live alone, it just gave a wife something to commit to other than sitting at home. Teachers made $60 - $70 month in California in the late 1800s. The railroad attendants they were married to? $130 - $140 mo.

Now women have gone on to other more esteemed professions and the ones left behind think they should be paid more (adjusted with inflation) when that was never an objective of the education system or the state governments.

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Often married women were strongly encouraged to retire. Teaching it was a job for unmarried women or widows.

And it was very deliberate that they hired women because they knew they would work for cheaper than men out of necessity and not having more options[/quote]

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