Cummins, Amy. “An Honor to Be a Teacher”: Antebellum Literary Depictions of School women.” Women’s Studies (2009): 799-817. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 April 2016. This article is a great reference for why women would and did become teachers. Author, Amy Cummins a professor at Fort Hayes State …show more content…
“One Man One Job’: The Marriage Ban and The Employment of Woman Teachers in Irish Primary Schools.” Paedagogica Historica 46.5 (2010): 639-654. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 April 2016. In this reliable academic journal the authors recognize the ban put in place for female teachers when coming to marriage. This ban was a way to help protect the image of a woman in the nineteenth century, a woman was viewed to be in the home helping manage while the husband was tending to crops and ranch needs. If a woman was to become a teacher that role is automatically thrown out this window, which is why this ban was put into