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In this article, Elizabeth J. Hauser describes how the disparity between male and female teachers' salaries is due in large part to the fact that women do not have the right to vote. According to the author, in the states of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho--where women did have full suffrage--teachers' salaries were higher overall and women received salaries equal to those of their male counterparts.
Creator: The Club Member
Date: December 1906
This article demonstrates how the female vote had the potential to improve teachers' salaries in Kansas. It could be grouped with the article on child labor (also in The Club Member) to illustrate the reforms that Kansas women were most concerned about.
KS:7th:4.1:Women's suffrage (2005)
Item Number: 211581
Call Number: K396.05 C62 v.4-6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211581
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Women's suffrage (Indicator 1) - Arguments for universal suffrage
Date - 1900s - 1906
Education - Primary - Teachers
Education - Secondary - Teachers
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Women
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Women's rights
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Hoch, Edward Wallis
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Magazine
People - Notable Kansans - Hoch, Edward Wallis, 1849-1925
People - Notable Kansans - Monroe, Lilla Day, 1858-1929
People - Women
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Printed materials - Magazines
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