Existing comment:
"She has been obliged to teach for one third of the wages accorded to a male teacher"
In 1879, Emily Barber, a teacher, sent this petition to Congress calling attention to the inequalities she endured as a wage-earning woman. She pointedly noted that she paid equal taxes with men but had no say in how they were spent, and that "with acknowledged superior capacities for teaching and governing schools," she made only a third of male teachers' pay at her school. |