Regulating the Personal Lives of ‘Lady’ Teachers
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Until the 1950s, many teachers in Saskatchewan still taught in one-room schools located within farming communities and, in these rural settings, were under close scrutiny by farm men, farm women and their children. While focusing on the gendered constraints at play, this paper explores how women teachers lived with, negotiated and challenged these prescribed expectations. I examine the regulation of rural women teachers by local farm families in their capacities as parents of school children, school trustees and landlords in the first half of the 20th century. I argue that the expectation to be a quiet and conforming female by community members, as enforced by the total discretion over firing and rehiring, made it difficult for rural women teachers to assert autonomy and agency. For those women who attempted to deviate from the standards of this time, the visibility of their activities constrained their latitude of departure and left them vulnerable to disciplinary measures. First hand accounts from 200 women, who taught in rural Saskatchewan in the first half of the 20th century, provide the basis for this analysis.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it