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Women's work? : American schoolteachers, 1650-1920

Title
Women's work? : American schoolteachers, 1650-1920 / Joel Perlmann & Robert A. Margo.
Author
Perlmann, Joel.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
Margo, Robert A. (Robert Andrew), 1954-
Description
x, 188 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"American schoolteaching is one of few occupations to have undergone a thorough gender shift from men to women, yet previous explanations have neglected a key feature of the transition: its regional character. By the early 1800s, far higher proportions of women were teaching in the Northeast than in the South, and this regional difference was reproduced as settlers moved West before the Civil War. What explains the creation of these divergent regional arrangements in the East, their recreation in the West, and their eventual disappearance by the next century?" "In Women's Work? the authors blend newly available quantitative evidence with historical narrative to show that distinctive regional school structures and related cultural patterns account for the initial regional difference, while a growing recognition that women could handle the work after they temporarily replaced men during the Civil War helps explain this widespread shift to female teachers later in the century. Yet despite this shift, a significant gender gap in pay and positions remained. This book offers an original and thought-provoking account of a remarkable historical transition."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
American schoolteachers, 1650-1920
Subject
  • Women teachers > United States > History
  • Women teachers > United States > Social conditions
  • Elementary school teachers > United States > History
  • Elementary school teachers
  • Women teachers
  • Women teachers > Social conditions
  • Lehrerin
  • Geschichte 1650-1920
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. New England: The First Two Centuries -- 2. South Versus North -- 3. Migrations -- 4. Explaining Feminization -- 5. Labor Market Outcomes in Urban Schools: The Role of Gender.
ISBN
  • 0226660397
  • 9780226660394
LCCN
00011053
OCLC
  • ocm44885120
  • 44885120
  • SCSB-8905033
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library