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Lucretia Mott

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

Lucretia Mott

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Lucretia Mott realized that even though girls paid the same amount as boys for their education, women teachers were paid only half of what men earned. She saw this pay difference as clearly unfair and unjust.

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