Transformations in Organizational Structures and the Feminization of Schoolteaching.

For the purpose of exploring internal gender segregation, this paper presents historical data on New England teaching from state and local school records and manuscript district school meeting accounts. The paper first identifies pre-nineteenth century forms of job segregation within teaching. Second, it examines the predominant form of segregation in the first decades of the nineteenth century -- segregation by seasons. The third section documents the process of change from gender segregation by season to gender segregation by hierarchical ranking. The fourth investigates gender segregation within the bureaucratic organization of late nineteenth-century urban schools. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of its findings and the specific consequences of changes in gender segregation to nineteenth-century schoolteachers [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]