opportunities to earn a living and a need for teachers, teaching was an appealing option to the women who had the capacity to do so. Another reason why the role of teaching was open to women was because of gender roles and the belief that women, the motherly, loving figures, were more suited to teaching children and instilling them with strong values and morals (“The Feminization of Teaching”, 1997). Meanwhile, men primarily composed the teaching workforce, although there were women present also (“The Feminization…
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