So many of our college professors that worked in actual businesses meant single spaced papers. Those professors that never left academia wanted double spaced and were confused by double spaced stuff thinking we were trying to cheat them out of paper. It took about 3 years before it seemed double spaced was acepted as the standard. Due to the gender divide, male teachers had professional backgrounds amd expected single spaced. Female teachers generally went to school specifically to be grade schjool teachers and did not get into the professional world and become accostomed to single spaced. At the time, guys had a cultural expectation to have a high paying job so his wife could have the option to stay home. A teacher's salary was not enough to support a family without the wife working. 35,000 a year when houses in the area cost 300,000. Women often did teaching because they felt good
heloping lives of children. male teachers often were teachers as wre there wives, often at the same

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