Deb Fuller wrote:
 It's only been a bit over 100 years since the founding of any formal
training for nurses....
Teachers were the same way. Teaching was mainly done by unmarried women
and
teacher's colleges didn't get started until the mid-1800s ...

Now compare the history of teaching and nursing to "men's" professions
such as
doctors and lawyers. Academic training for those professions goes back a
couple
thousand years. Even with medicine was mainly bleeding people and snake
oil,
men went to university to study such things.

"Academic training" of doctors in the Middle Ages was to take notes from
your university professor and to repeat without questions or experiments
what he told you. Remember da Vinci and Michaelangelo's problems with
anatomy in the Renaissance?

Actual chemical experiments did not start until the 1820s in Germany.
Johns Hopkins when it started (1850s?) was the first school anywhere to
require doctor candidates to do their own chemistry and biology
experiments. So those "professionals" learned more by apprenticeship
until about the same time you are speaking of the nursing training.

In Texas, women teachers were on a different pay scale than men until a
law in 1948 even if they both had bachelor's degrees. "Normal" training,
(a summer school course on how to teach below 8th grade) started about
1900. To teach high school require more training.

By the way, women in Texas today will point out that most of the men at
the high school level get more as coaches (especially) or band directors
that as the "just" classroom teachers.
And we are all familar with how the colleges and universities have had
more men than women professors.

However, when those first experiments began is about the time men like
Rembrant Peale and others where beginning to charge to let the public see
their collections of paintings, natural history and other curios,
organizations which came to be called museums--- so may be there is hope
for our successors.

Mary Kirby
Historic Upshur Museum

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