Timeline for Why was it a problem for an unmarried man to be a tutor to women in the early 20th century?
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| Apr 12, 2023 at 13:53 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | @toby544: the number of such employers was very small after WW2 -- I agree, strongly. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 13:45 | answer | added | alexg | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 12:53 | comment | added | toby544 | @DanielR.Collins "Married women were commonly barred from employment in Western countries up until the 1970's" I don't think that is right at all. The Wikipedia page you linked to just says that some employers banned them. It gives the impression that the number of such employers was very small after WW2. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 12:18 | comment | added | Adam Přenosil | @Neil Meyer By the way, you may be imagining some sort of sexual assault when you say "cannot be trusted around women", but the woman's parents would (in my largely ignorant understanding of how things used to work) probably instead have been imagining the threat of a romantic relationship as a result of this situation. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 12:13 | comment | added | Adam Přenosil | @Neil Meyer You are looking at it from a contemporary perspective, where being with a young woman alone is a Normal Thing and if someone suggests that you should not be left alone with a young woman, then that may indeed be an insulting insinuation. I would think the perspective was more that spending a large amount of time with a young woman alone is simply Not Done. In the same way that woman spending time alone with a male stranger in some Muslim cultures is simply Not Done. The point is not that you personally are a threat, the point is that you are breaking a strong cultural norm. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 11:42 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | @AdamPřenosil seeing as these men were gentlemen questioning the integrity of a man by insinuating that he cannot be trusted around women would be an insult. Unless he has given you an actuall reason to doubt his integrity. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 11:33 | comment | added | xLeitix | The history of Oxford is wild. I would strongly recommend reading about it, that your relationship status qualified or disqualified you from certain posts is by far not the worst example of things that look extremely weird to the modern eye. If you read their "house rules" you would be led to believe you are reading about a cult, not an institution of learning and scientific progress. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 10:16 | comment | added | Adam Přenosil | Presumably it was not considered proper for an unmarried man to be spending a significant amount of time alone with a young woman. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 8:37 | comment | added | astronat supports the strike | Yeah, it was sexist. Women didn't have the right to vote in the UK when Tolkien began his academic career. Who knows what would have happened if they were tutored by (gasp!) an unmarried man? | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 8:37 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | More to consider: Married women were commonly barred from employment in Western countries up until the 1970's. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 8:19 | answer | added | toby544 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 7:41 | history | asked | Neil Meyer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |