"Soon Americans began pushing for free, compulsory, taxpayer-supported schools with trained teachers. More students led to the need for more schools and more teachers. It didn’t take long for communities like the Littleton School Committee in Massachusetts to realize that 'God seems to have made woman peculiarly suited to guide and develop the infant mind, and it seems...very poor policy to pay a man 20 or 22 dollars a month, for teaching children the ABCs, when a female could do the work more successfully at one-third of the price.' Enter the feminization of education, which began to 'not only how society perceived women, but how women perceived themselves.' One could argue it also became the root of today’s artificially low professional pay structure for educators."