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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.)
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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.
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> 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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