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On National Teachers Day: respect and hopes for pay equity By Linda Waggener It's always a good time to pay attention when Jean Cravens shares her life experiences -- she's a natural communicator, someone I trust, admire and am proud to call sister-in-law. What stayed with me from her most recent article Jean Cravens shares memories of the 40s was the respect she felt for her teachers and the special memory about one, in the following paragraph: "...Mary Richards ...during the War, she had been the head teacher or principal - and basketball coach - at Knifley High School, and got raves, she did. But after the war, when the soldiers came home, the board decided that the job at Knifley should go to a man. After all, Demaree Richards, Mary's husband, was a successful contractor; that meant her family wasn't as dependent on her income. Naturally, with the job change, there also came a pay cut. The thinking of men in those days was women didn't have to make as much as a man, regardless of their performance..." That struck a double cord with me because, in addition to concerns over friends and family who are teachers worried about income and lack of respect, I've also been refused equal pay for equal work in a past job, told it was, "because as a woman I wouldn't need to make as much with a husband to support me." I moved away from that job at the first opportunity. I was hard to swallow -- in the mid-1940s when that happened to Mary Richards, in the early 1990s when it happened to me -- and in 2018, this whole spring, watching media cover the battle teachers have had to fight to save their retirement incomes or get modest income changes. For all educators, and for all women -- here's to pay equity and respect, so that no matter what individual is doing the job, results are judged on performance, only. This story was posted on 2018-05-08 16:08:20
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