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Women's Education and Employment: Virtue Howard's 1848 Report Advocating Female Teachers in Maine

1848réf. 164591848. Howard Virtue. Report on Female Teaching 1848 an early address concerning women's qualifications employment opportunities and professional standing as teachers in nineteenth-century America. Delivered before the Oxford Teachers' Association in Maine on May 17 1848 the report examines the qualifications and usefulness of female teachers the privileges associated with their employment and the intellectual and financial benefits of teaching for women. Published during the expansion of female employment in American public education Howard's address records contemporary arguments supporting women's participation in a profession increasingly open to them. Howard Virtue. Report on Female Teaching. Paris Maine: G. Washington Millett 1848. 15 pages. Delivered before the Oxford Teachers' Association May 17 1848. The report discusses the qualifications and usefulness of women as educators alongside the professional opportunities and personal benefits associated with teaching. Howard addresses teaching as an occupation offering women opportunities for intellectual development and financial independence while considering the advantages of employing female instructors. The address was presented before a regional teachers' association placing these questions within organized discussions of educational practice and professional qualifications in antebellum Maine. During the first half of the nineteenth century the expansion of common schools and the development of teacher-training institutions increased women's participation in American education. Although women had long worked as instructors teaching became an increasingly accessible form of paid employment particularly in New England where educational reformers promoted female teachers while school districts frequently paid them less than their male counterparts. Howard's 1848 address belongs to this period of professional change when women's suitability for classroom instruction and their opportunities for independent employment were subjects of public discussion. Published the same year as the Seneca Falls Convention the report provides a contemporary account of arguments concerning women's intellectual abilities professional qualifications and economic opportunities in education. In very good condition. unknown