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[Greek and Latin] were languages that wives and servants could not understand, and therefore in which secrets were told. ... Women’s lack of Greek and Latin — i
by thisrod 11y ago
[Greek and Latin] were languages that wives and servants could not understand, and therefore in which secrets were told. ... Women’s lack of Greek and Latin — in their own sex-segregated schools, they were taught French and German — kept them out of the universities and learned society.
How obvious is that, once someone points it out?
- devloper 11y agoYet society did not learn: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957178/Women-earn-men-35-gender-pay-gap-reverses-end-earning-35-less.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957178/Women-earn-m... “Official data found full-time women earned more than their male colleagues in their 20s and early 30s.” http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/21/gender-gap-university-admissions-record http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/21/gender-gap-... “Women accepted to study at university outnumbered men by record levels last year ... the gap has widened to nearly 58,000 ...”
- cafard 11y agoToo obvious, I think. There were always a small number of women who had mastered Greek and Latin--Thomas More taught his daughter Margaret those languages, and one of her or anyway his female descendants, translated his Latin works in to English. In Samuel Johnson's time, a woman brought out a well regarded translation of Tacitus. Originally the purpose of Latin and Greek in the European curriculum was to prepare students for the professions, including the clerical, which were closed to women. So why would the schoolmasters teach them Latin and Greek.