Title: How did Gender Roles in the 1800’s Influence Teaching?
Abstract: According to the Snyder and Dillow (2015), of the U.S. Department of Education, in the 2011-12 school year, 76 percent of public school teachers were female, with an even larger percent working in elementary schools. The disproportion of male and female teachers begs the question as to what has caused so females to pursue teaching, and so many males to avoid it. Though gender roles may not play as much of a role today as they did in the 19th century era, their effects live on. This research looks to answer one main question: How did gender roles in the 1800’s influence teaching?
Keywords: Gender roles, 1800’s, education, teaching