American Decades
Equal Pay for Women Teachers
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Nonfiction work
By: Grace C. Strachan
Date: 1910
Source: Strachan, Grace C. Equal Pay for Equal Work. New York: B.F. Buck, 1910. Reprinted in Hoffman, Nancy. Woman's "True" Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching. New York: Feminist Press/McGraw-Hill, 1981.
About the Author: Grace C. Strachan (18??–1922), educator, activist, author, and school district superintendent attended the State Normal School in Buffalo, New York, and did postgraduate work at New York University. She taught in Buffalo, and then in Brooklyn, New York. She was a leader in the struggle for equal pay for women teachers, and higher salaries and pensions for all teachers in New York City. She was a popular lecturer and published articles in a number of magazines.
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1910's Education Primary Sources
- "The College-bred Community"
- The Indian and His Problem
- Equal Pay for Women Teachers
- "The Contribution of Psychology to Education"
- Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- "An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers' Association"
- A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
- The Montessori Method
- "Why Should the Kindergarten Be Incorporated as an Integral Part of the Public School System?"
- Smith-Lever Act of 1914
- Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
- Democracy and Education
- The Measurement of Intelligence
- Smith-Hughes Act of 1917
- Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
- "The Project Method"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
