Rhode Island's Last Holdout
Tenure and Married Women Teachers at the Brink of the Women's Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9884608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Donahue (Mills College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-74 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2002.tb00100.x |
| OpenAlex | W2113192687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
On 24 April 1946, Rhode Island Governor John O. Pastore signed “An Act to Guarantee and to Improve the Education of Children and Youth in This State by Providing Continuing Teaching Service.” The law stated that “three successive annual contracts shall be considered evidence of satisfactory teaching and shall constitute a probationary period” after which teachers would be granted tenure. Teachers could be dismissed only “for good and just cause” after they received tenure. However, the law contained one big loophole: it did not “prevent the retirement of any teacher under a rule of the school committee affecting marriage,” in effect leaving local school committees with the authority to fire women teachers as soon as they got married
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |