Resumen de Marginalizing married women teachers in South Australia from the 1870s

Gwendolyn Morphett, Kay Whitehead

• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century teaching was a popular occupation for women across the British Empire, and countless thousands were able to 'fashion a life as respectable, educated and independent working women'.' However, women's opportunities to teach were mediated by their marital status and the treatment of married women varied across jurisdictions.