Teachers may grumble now -- but things were much worse [Independent.ie]
- Published: 03 February 2010
In the early part of the last century, the writer Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was moved to remark that female second level teachers were "the most harassed and exploited class in the whole country".
The position of their male counterparts was not that much better.
Their jobs were insecure, they had little or no opportunity for promotion in schools that were dominated by the clergy, and their pay was meagre.
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