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Re: Married Women Teachers
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"Barbara Vines Little, CG" <[log in to unmask]>
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This was true even in the 60s--once you began to "show" you were out the 
door.

Barbara Vines Little, CG
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Orange, VA 22960

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Melinda Skinner wrote:
> Being schooled in the late 40s and through the 50s, I recall that teachers could not work if they were pregnant.
> I always had the impression that some of the reasoning was influenced by the sexual implications of an obviously pregnant woman.  (Things were pretty uptight in the 50s.)
>
> --
> Melinda C. P. Skinner
> Richmond, VA
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>> Neil, your identification of the contractual and taboo aspects of pregnant  
>> teachers is right on target with what I came to understand from talking with my 
>>  mother, who was a teacher (before she got married and left teaching).  My  
>> own W.Va. elementary teachers in the 1950's were all married, the best I  
>> remember, but none of them were young enough to be having children.
>>  
>> Another aspect, of course, was that it was an era in which women were  
>> expected to be full-time moms rather than employed elsewhere.
>>  
>>
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