Today in Herstory: New York Will No Longer Enforce Prohibition on Married Teachers )4/27/1904)
(read the whole thing, and think how much the woman-haters of the reichwing want to return us to this kind of insanity)
Today in Herstory: New York Will No Longer Enforce Prohibition on Married Teachers
April 27, 1904: A victory today for female teachers who wish to marry, and for women’s rights in general.
The New York Board of Education has just voted to reinstate Jennie Patterson Vandewater after she was dismissed from her teaching position at P.S. 58 in Queens, on December 23rd, as a result of her marriage. The Board concluded it is now useless to try to enforce its prohibition on married women teachers due to a recent Court of Appeals decision (Murphy v. Maxwell, 177 N.Y. 494) and growing public opposition to the rule.
The regulation read: “No woman Principal, head of department, or member of the teaching or supervising staff shall marry while in the employ of the Board of Education, which may direct that charges be preferred against such teacher by reason of such marriage.” Though the portion of the rule authorizing charges to be brought has been stricken, the part prohibiting marriage by women teachers remains on the books.
But M. Dwight Collier, a member of the Committee on Elementary Schools said: “We will take no action against such women teachers as marry. We are tired of fighting over this matter in the courts and the public is in favor of retaining married teachers.” However, he warned: “I think our action will lead to scandal. I think that the public will regret that married teachers are permitted to teach.”
Interestingly, the Court of Appeals decision was not a rejection of the old-fashioned attitudes behind the ban itself. The problem as they saw it was that Section 1117 of the Greater New York Charter provides that teachers may only be dismissed for specific reasons: gross misconduct, insubordination, neglect of duty, or general inefficiency. Since marriage is not included, the judges ruled that this cannot be the sole reason for dismissal.
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