Changes in educational policies in Britain, 1800-1920
Subtitle: how gender inequalities reshaped the teaching profession
By: Helen Corr ; with a foreword by Lynn Jamieson.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773449138
Subjects: Women teachers -- Great Britain -- History; Sex differences in education -- Great Britain -- History; Sex discrimination in education -- Great Britain -- History; Education and state -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing gender patterns in teachers' employment and education, 1800s-1914; title: Dominies and domination: locating gender in Scottish education before 1872; title: Feminising of teaching, 1870-1900: "a mixed blessing"?; title: Gender and unequal opportunities in teaching in the early twentieth century; title: Thinking of joining a teachers' union?; title: Gender politics and equal pay, 1900-1920; title: Constructing a domestic sphere for girls in state education, 1830s-1900; title: Education, motherhood, and nationhood, 1900-1914.