Images, carrières et modes de vie des enseignantes. Des années soixante à la décennie quatre-vingt-dix

Between the two World Wars, women teachers were mosûy single ; since the 1970's, teachers who are married and bring up children have become the norm among high school teachers. In romantic fiction, one lays the stress on the distress of "lonely" women or on the conflicting roles of teachers who are also wives and mothers. Beyond these necessarily limiting images, this article aims at shedding light on the processes which come into play to determine different types of relationships with the teaching profession and career. Women's school ana university background, their husbands' career, the collective interests, play a role in the progress of professional life which in its turn influences th…