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How did teaching, nursing, and being a secretary become the only “proper” professions a woman could work at, at least in the US? Didn’t teaching used to be a man’s job? Was it a part of “women raise children” thing which then extended to teaching them?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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