You’d be surprised how different it really was back in the early 1900s. Schools back in the 1900s had a much more difficult time than students today with all of the technological advances. In the early 1900s schools only had one teacher, a large room to teach in and every grade level to teach. School wasn’t really required back then, most attended but once a male was in about the sixth grade, he would drop out and help work with his father to support the family. They didn’t even know if school would still be around now; they thought that teaching would fail, all together giving up on education.
Some of the hardest times for the economy and for people happened to be World War II. The economy wasn’t at its greatest peak and income wasn’t so great. Although, compared to the economy now, back then it was close to perfect. All the men had to work long hours and extra days with minimum wage. Women stayed at home to take care of the children and do the housework, which consisted of cooking and cleaning.
I believe that this had a great impacted the society, mostly women. This was because women back in the 1800’s were only considered to be house wives, looking after the children, cooking for the family and cleaning their houses. Many women didn’t have the opportunity to do everything or even have everything that Marie did. Many of them couldn’t even go to school because they had to stay home to help their mothers with the house. After she made that comet discovery she gave hope to all women and showed them that they can do whatever they want even if only men have done it before.
People like teachers, doctors, policemen, and firemen are important. Being someone’s maid or cook doesn’t really get you far in life. In Maya Angelou’s graduating class there were only a few kids graduating and moving on to high school. In Hillside, New Jersey, over 90 percent of students graduate from every grade level and can go to any college they choose. There’s also this program called “ No child left behind” that’s supposed to allow kids who are slower when it comes to learning be able to catch up with the rest of their classmates and move on to the next level of education That’s how schools in 2013 is different from school in the 1940’s we are an integrated nation with the ability to be what we want and have a chance to expand our
Back on those day education for women was very limited and had we attended school back in those days we would probably end up learning about cooking, cleaning, and about how to please and cater to your husband's needs when you got married, as well as take care of children. Young girls didn't have the choice to get an education, and only a few girls could go to school, because usually their family could only afford to send one child to school, and the boy would be their first pick. Girls have a chance to go to university now and get a good, well-paying job. Back in the 1920's and the 1930's, women usually just skipped university after high school and began working, doing a 'female job', once they were done. These days in school we learn about important things, and girls can get the education that they need to have a good
This cut off almost a third of Americans because they had little to no high school education. High school played a big role in getting a career started for women which were considered white collared jobs. “but access to secondary schooling was determined by class and ethnicity.” Therefore, poor people had a low chance of applying and being accepted. The entrance requirements to be a teacher requires 4 years of schooling, a degree, and they also added a minimum grade for the state teachers examination. They had tightened their requirements because careers like doctors, lawyers, and engineers did as well.
350,000 women were in unions in 1914, but 600,000 by 1918. Although many women found themselves earning good wages for the first time during the war, women were always paid less than men, and were not promoted as often as their male colleagues. The war did lead to real changes in social attitudes. Women had more freedom after the war. Their clothing became much simpler, with shorter skirts and sleeves.
The bread once slaved over in the kitchen could now be bought along with clothes and other necessities People went from family owned farms to the small business arena,some with success. With the decreasing number of farms children could now go to school longer, some to completion and higher education. With the rapid expansion of capitalist and various other big businesses, record keeping increased causing a need for clerical workers.Women were a useful commodity for the growing business industry. The companies could pay women a lowersalary in comparison to men. It was a widespread conceptthat women did not need money to support families, so to give them an equal payrate to men was not necessary.
The parents of children from wealthy middle class backgrounds (bourgeoisie) could afford to send their child to public and grammar schools to receive an academic education. Whereas, children of poor working class parents could only receive a very basic level of education in elementary schools. Though they did receive some education, this was not to help them climb the social ladder, but rather to teach them the basic skills required for work and to obey authority. The Education Act (1944) replaced the old class based system with the Tripartite System. The Tripartite System was put into place after the Second World War and it introduced secondary education to pupils.
When the man would be off at work, working all day, while the woman was left at home to tend to the house, cooking, cleaning, taking care of the baby etc. But in modern day society, I see more often than not, the women being the bread winners, while the men are home to tend to the house duties. Or, even one of the most controversial,