Problem
As bad as the gender discrimination of the 1950s and 1960s was to the career aspirations of smart women, there was a silver lining to the dark cloud: School systems could hire very smart, very capable, and very motivated women to be elementary teachers and do so for relatively modest salaries. Suppose you were a school board member in the 1980s and noticed the decline in abilities of the new graduates. What would you have done to reattract great women to the teaching profession?