"...Mary Richards ...during the War, she had been the head teacher or principal - and basketball coach - at Knifley High School, and got raves, she did. But after the war, when the soldiers came home, the board decided that the job at Knifley should go to a man. After all, Demaree Richards, Mary's husband, was a successful contractor; that meant her family wasn't as dependent on her income. Naturally, with the job change, there also came a pay cut. The thinking of men in those days was women didn't have to make as much as a man, regardless of their performance..."