When the common school reform took place, it was natural for women to begin to take over the jobs of the male teachers in the mid to late 1700's. Socially it made more sense to people during that era to have a woman tend to the children whether it be at school or at home, it was economically more efficient, and it helped spread the protestant values of "good Americans". It may have been socially difficult to accept when women first started leaving their homes to enter the working world as teachers because women were generally thought to have their own separate sphere of domesticity, meaning they belonged in the home. When women became teachers, they separated home and work place.
Women have always been thought to have natural child rearing tendencies because they have commonly been the one's left at home to raise the children as the men went to work. Therefore, when women started to take on the role of teacher, it was not a big social shock because if women are good with children in the home setting they should also work well with children in a school setting.
In order for women to be accepted as teachers, there needed to be reasons that would benefit society. Women have been thought to have better morals. .
Advocates of common school education in the 1830s and 1840s equated their goal with a universal improvement of character, to be accomplished by inculcating ethical standards and self-restraint during "the docile and teachable years of childhood" (Cott, pg. 96-97, 1997) .
This means that as a teacher a woman could instill her positive morals into the children that she taught. This would benefit society because as the children grew up they would be active members of their communities instead of deterrents due to the values they had learned.
Women were thought to be less distracted by worldly "demons". Some of the restrictions women teachers had included being expected to stay away from liquor, not ride in a carriage with any men other than their brothers and fathers, not to go to ice cream parlors, not to dress in bright colors, not to keep company with men, and not wear makeup like lipstick among many other now common practices.
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