By the 1820s, more women were becoming teachers because...

   

• they were demonstrably more intelligent than male candidates.
• men scorned teaching as “women's work.”
• state legislatures were pressured by women's rights advocates into broadening women's employment opportunities.
• school authorities could pay women less than they paid men. 

ANSWER: By the 1820s, more women were becoming teachers because school authorities could pay women less than they paid men.