Well, I don’t loiter at ice-cream stores, so that’s one point in my favor. The rest, however, I bomb at.
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Well, I don’t loiter at ice-cream stores, so that’s one point in my favor. The rest, however, I bomb at.
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Teachers drinking vodka are ok, though…
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Yes, as long as they don’t loiter at ice-cream stores before or after, it’s fine. 🙂
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Why weren’t married women allowed to teach?
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They should stay at home, obviously. Teaching makes you middle-class and middle-class women supposedly only worked because they couldn’t find a husband.
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Unmarried women could be prevailed upon to accept lower wages and worse treatment and more control since they presumably had no husband or father supporting them. Everything else is secondary.
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I’m not into these Marxist explanations. The need to victimize women always wins over any economic concern. When it is extremely unprofitable to exploit women, they are still exploited.
And this is precisely the core issue between feminists and Marxists. Plus the main reason why I can’t be Marxist.
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\ When it is extremely unprofitable to exploit women, they are still exploited.
Examples?
How can exploiting be unprofitable? I don’t think the exploiters think it is.
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“Why weren’t married women allowed to teach?”
This is an interesting question that I have long wondered about. Requiring female employees to be unmarried extended to flight attendants until about 1970, I think.
It could be that only virginal women were considered suitable role models for young girls.
It may be that many parents did not want their children to perhaps see a pregnant teacher, since this could lead to uncomfortable questions by children that parents did not want to confront.
It could be that it was considered inappropriate for a woman to neglect her husband and her wifely duties to pursue employment.
On a related note, when I first bought a house, it was not legal for lenders to consider the wife’s income in deciding whether a couple could afford monthly mortgage payments. This was because her income was not considered to be dependable, since she might quit work and become a stay at home wife/mother at any time.
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Actually, this is still the case for pregnant women. A friend bought a house when she was expecting, and she had to fight with the lender to take her income into account. The logic was that she would quit her job and become a stay at home mother immediately after the child emerged!
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This book looks interesting: Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century. Apparently, because of labor shortages and increasing panic over the numbers of single ladies, they stopped requiring women to be unmarried when they taught.
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Attention, Rumor Has It: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1872rule.asp
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