Editing Lucy Stone (section)

=== Teaching at "a woman's pay" ===
At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools, as her brothers and her sister, Rhoda, also did. Her beginning pay of $1.00 a day was much lower than that of male teachers, and when she substituted for her brother, Bowman, one winter, she received less pay than he received. When she protested to the school committee that she had taught all the subjects Bowman had, it replied that they could give her "only a woman's pay." Lower pay for women was one of the arguments cited by those promoting the hiring of women as teachers: "To make education universal, it must be at moderate expense, and women can afford to teach for one-half, or even less, the salary which men would ask."<ref>Nancy Woloch, Women and the American Experience, New York: Knopf, 1984, p. 129.</ref> Although Stone's salary increased along with the size of her schools, until she finally received $16 a month, it was always lower than the male rate.<ref>Kerr, 1992, p. 23; Million, 2003, p. 19.</ref>