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‘The Outlook for Old Age Is Not Hopeful’: The Struggle of Female Teachers Over Pensions in Quebec 1880-1914
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‘The Outlook for Old Age Is Not Hopeful’: The Struggle of Female Teachers Over Pensions in Quebec 1880-1914
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| Abstract |
An examination of the struggle led by Quebec Protestant and Catholic women teachers’ associations for a more just pension scheme for their members. In Quebec, superannuation schemes for public school teachers dated back to the 1850s. In 1880, a compulsory, state-administered, pension plan for both male and female certified lay teachers was introduced. The authors point out that this pension plan discriminated seriously against women teachers, who constituted the majority of the lay teaching force; since the amount to be allocated was calculated on the basis of a teacher's average salary and total years of service, women teachers, who were paid considerably less than their male colleagues and also tended to have shorter careers, were to receive a much smaller pension.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 26
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no. 51
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67-94
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May 1993
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en
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Heap, Ruby, and Alison Prentice. “‘The Outlook for Old Age Is Not Hopeful’: The Struggle of Female Teachers Over Pensions in Quebec 1880-1914.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 26, no. 51 (May 1993): 67–94. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/36870.
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