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>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 availa
by 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.