Mollyellis

[CerridwenLorelei]

didn't want this to get buried in a thread that will likely be gone soon..

I was just curious why your grandmother could no longer teach after she married?
were those the rules back then or???

Just historically curious..

[joesmom]

I think those were the rules at some point- I am not Mollyellis though!

[Pigpen]

I was just reading about Rachel Carson...in the book it said that her mother, "Maria McLean married Robert Carson, she had to stop teaching. In those days, female teachers were forced to leave their jobs if they got married. It was considered shameful for a wife to work outside her home. Many businesses refused to hire women at all. An unmarried, educated woman could be a teacher, office assistant, or librarian. A married woman, educated or not, had no career choices. She was expected to stay home and keep house. If she needed to earn money, she had to do it at home."
That was the early 1900's. Is that the same era?