teachers: not what they used to be

[Brad DeLong]

>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>
>>How much of this is the outward expression of the fact that teachers still
>>get paid much as they were a generation ago when they were women who
>>couldn't get into better paying professions? How much of this "decline" in
>>the quality of teachers is the result of feminism's having opened those
>>door?

I suspect a lot--you would expect the magnitude of discrimination 
practiced against women a generation or two ago to have a *big* 
effect on their wages in the occupations they were allowed to enter...

Brad DeLong