Barton “...began teaching at age 18, founded a school for workers’ children at her brother’s mill when she was 24, and after moving to Borden town, New Jersey, established the first free school there in 1852” (Michals). However, after a man was hired with pay twice the amount of Bartons, she quit and said she would “never work for less than a man”. After a short teaching career, Clara Barton moved on to being the first woman to be appointed to a post in the US Patent Office in DC. She was even paid the same salary as her male coworkers, until a man reduced her to