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Working women and the professions

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1880 – present, as reached

The early record names the town's women workers hardly at all, and the leg prints the thinness rather than filling it. The graded school of about 1880 shows a principal and a lower-department teacher, both men in Chapman's telling; the millinery store in his 1880 business census of the town is the one trade of the era conventionally women's, and its keeper is not named. The school's teaching force in the twentieth century — overwhelmingly women's work in every Indiana town — is carried in this build only in aggregate, in the elementary school's modern profile of thirty-one teachers; no individual woman teacher, nurse, librarian, or editor of this town is named in any carrier reached before the office-holders of the article above, and Missy Mackowiak of the Goshen College softball roster, carried whole in the sports-players file, stands as the record's one woman of the Shamrock era carried past the schoolhouse. Each line banks as a named gap in the pass note, the town paper and the school records their settlers.

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Source: Working women and the professions, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/womens-history/working-women-and-the-professions-at-the-record-s/