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Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 188. $32.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2002

David Mitch
David Mitch
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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By the 1920s over 90 percent of primary-school teachers in the United States were women. But in 1860, only a third of Southern rural teachers were female whereas in New England and Mid-Atlantic rural areas, modern proportions had already been attained. One of the main objectives of this careful and lucid study is to examine the reasons for these different regional patterns.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 1148 - 1149
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© 2001 The Economic History Association

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