Posted on 10/08/2019 8:37:44 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Many colleges were state schools or not for profit institutions. Apparently salary was not important. If you look at the gender breakdown of professors in those days you’ll see the overwhelming majority were male - even at the higher salaries. Female professors were rare.
Figures
No. She was married. And we’re talking grade-school teacher. That was “women’s work.” Most other professions, you’d have a point. Not teaching.
Sorry. My grandmother had to quit teaching when they found out she was pregnant.
That’s a strange escalation of personal knowledge; you mentioned your aunt’s credit difficulties first?
All women had what you call “credit difficulties” because they were females decades ago. They had more difficulty than dead men.
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