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I think your points dont sound quite right. * Yes there were lots of new schools in the suburbs but does that make education better? Were men better teachers th
by rr808 2y ago
I think your points dont sound quite right.
* Yes there were lots of new schools in the suburbs but does that make education better? Were men better teachers than women of today?
* Ivy league were much easier to get in if you had the right background, but very few poor/middle class people applied or could afford it.
* The last two years are tough but still most grads work after graduation
* The retirement age was much higher in the old days. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319983/average-retirement-age-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/319983/average-retiremen.... People are promoted much more quickly now, in the old days you had to work your way up over time.
- tdeck 2y ago> Were men better teachers than women of today? OP is saying that teaching (at primary / secondary level) was one of the few professional jobs available to women so women teachers in that era were more likely to be overqualified.
- readthenotes1 2y agoOr simply ... qualified?
- Rhapso 2y agoNo, overqualified. At least in comparison to their pay.
- Arnt 2y agoWhich, I guess, contributes to school's problems today. Underpaying when you have many excellent applicants may be a problem for the employees, but not for the organization. If you get used to underpaying and the supply of excellent candidates dries up, the organization has a problem.
- trilbyglens 2y agoI think the point being made is that we need genius level people working in education. Literally what else is more important than forming the next generation?
- Rhapso 2y agoMaking profits this year go up!
- cmonreally123 2y agoQuite literally no. the whole argument is they were well overqualified. A women teacher of today is qualified with high likelihood a genius women of today is working in a field that suits her genius. A genius women of that time could rarely work elsewhere.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>Were men better teachers than women of today? The teachers weren't men, they were all women. Back in those days, educated women had only 2 professions available to them: nurse or schoolteacher. Anything else was basically off-limits. So schools were full of very smart women who didn't want to be a nurse and didn't have any other career opportunities.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoProgramming was a popular profession for women back then also, ironically enough, although not in the quantity of nursing and teaching.
- Jensson 2y agoNo it wasn't, there were barely any female programmers because there were barely any programmers at all. Number of programmers has been exponentially increasing for a really long time, there weren't many of them before it became male dominated.
- vundercind 2y agoProgrammer was also a different job then, which no longer exists.
- Ekaros 2y agoHow large part of this was actually secretarial work? Which has very largely disappeared with advent of personal computer in business. Lot of typist and such positions were women too. Not just teachers and nurses.