第一夫人吉尔·拜登将创造历史，成为美国第一位在白宫外从事有偿工作的第一夫人。
拜登曾在担任第二夫人的八年里全职担任社区大学英语教授，她表示计划在白宫期间继续教书。
拜登说:“我真的很期待成为第一夫人，做我作为第二夫人所做的事情，继续军人家庭、教育和免费社区大学、癌症(拜登癌症倡议)，这些都是我和乔共同努力的。”上个月在“史蒂芬·科拜尔晚间秀”的采访中。”“我也要去教书。"
当被问及她的决定的历史性质时，她回答说:“我很难用历史的眼光来看待这件事，我想是因为我当第二夫人的时候教了整整八年书。
拜登已经做了三十多年的教育家。在她丈夫乔·拜登总统担任奥巴马政府副总统的八年里，她在北弗吉尼亚社区学院教英语。
她计划以第一夫人的身份继续在北弗吉尼亚社区学院任教，但她的办公室没有透露任何进一步的细节。
拜登的发言人迈克尔·拉罗萨(Michael LaRosa)在一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻，“正如她作为第二夫人所做的那样，出于对学生隐私的尊重和维护课堂的完整性，拜登博士将把她在北弗吉尼亚社区学院的教学与她的公共角色分开。
凯特·安德森·布劳尔作为几本关于第一夫人和白宫的畅销书的作者，她形容拜登继续教书的决定是美国历史上“前所未有的”。
安德森·布劳尔说:“第二夫人工作是不寻常的，但对第一夫人来说却是前所未有的。”在12月告诉《早安美国》。“我从与竞选团队的交谈中知道，有一种理解是，她还不知道自己能否在教书和做第一夫人之间取得平衡，但有一种感觉，这是她的希望，这也是她想做的事情，因为她热爱教书，她为自己开创的职业是独一无二的，与她丈夫的职业不同。”
安德森·布劳尔说，拜登继续担任她的教授职位不仅是前所未有的，而且有望在第一夫人的轨迹上发生重大转变。
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她说:“我认为对一个女人来说，拥有自己的身份非常重要，尤其是当你嫁给了一个政治家，现在又嫁给了总统。“你必须为你的配偶放弃你的整个人生的想法似乎非常过时。”
“我希望人们能接受吉尔·拜登教书的愿望，希望她是妻子和母亲，有自己的事业，”安德森·布劳尔补充道，他创造了“FLOTUS教授”一词来描述拜登的双重角色。“我希望我们已经到了接受的地步，因为我认为如果是男人，我们肯定会接受。”
在担任第二夫人期间，拜登致力于支持军人家庭，帮助她的丈夫实施癌症登月计划，并领导在全国范围内突出社区大学的计划，同时还教授英语，并于2007年获得特拉华大学教育学博士学位。
除了博士学位，拜登还拥有两个硕士学位，这两个学位都是她“在工作和养家的同时”获得的根据她在白宫的官方传记。
拜登是去年被迫捍卫她的医生头衔过了一会儿《华尔街日报》论坛版呼吁她放弃“医生”头衔因为她不是医生。
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该论坛版的作者约瑟夫·艾本斯坦写道，拜登使用“医生”这个词“听起来和感觉上都有欺骗性，更不用说是一部感人的喜剧了”，并补充道，“一个聪明人曾经说过，除非他已经生了孩子，否则任何人都不应该称自己为‘医生’。”
拜登在“与史蒂芬·科拜尔的晚间秀”中回应论坛版时说:“这真是一个惊喜。“我真的是这么想的——你知道，他叫我老姐。”
“我最自豪的事情之一是我的博士学位，”她说。“我是说，我为之付出了那么多努力。”
我们将共同建设一个世界，让我们女儿的成就受到庆祝，而不是被贬低。
—吉尔·拜登博士(@DrBiden)2020年12月14日
乔·拜登也表达了对论坛版的不满，他告诉科尔伯特他妻子的成就，“她有两个硕士学位，晚上教书的时候一直在上学。”
作为对论坛版的回应，女性在推特上鼓励其他有学位的人将她们加入自己的名字。
“今天，我在个人资料中添加了“博士”。感谢《华尔街日报》的点拨，”科罗拉多大学医学院助理教授劳拉·舍雷尔博士写道。
今天我把“博士”加到了我的个人资料名字里。感谢《华尔街日报》的点拨
—劳拉·舍雷尔博士(@ldscherer)2020年12月12日
拜登在担任第一夫人和大学教授之际，女性目前占美国劳动力的近一半，近三分之一的就业女性是职业母亲。根据劳工统计局(BLS)和人口普查局。
在他的11月选举胜利演说，乔·拜登形容他的妻子既是一名军人母亲，也是一名教育家，她将成为“伟大的”第一夫人。
“她一生致力于教育事业。教书不仅仅是她做什么，而是她是谁，”他说。“对于美国的教育工作者来说，这是你们伟大的一天。你会在白宫有一个自己的。吉尔会成为一个伟大的第一夫人。我为她感到骄傲。”
Jill Biden to make history as 1st first lady to hold paid job outside the White House
First LadyJill Bidenwill make history as the country's first first lady to hold a paid job outside the White House.
Biden -- who worked full-time as a community college English professor during her eight years as second lady -- has said she plans to continue teaching during her time in the White House.
"I’m really looking forward to being first lady and doing the things that [I did] as second lady, carrying on with military families and education and free community college, cancer [the Biden Cancer Initiative], that Joe and I have both worked on," Biden saidin an interview last month on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." "And I’m going to teach as well."
"It’s hard for me to think of it in historic terms I guess because I taught all eight years when I was second lady," she replied when asked about the historic nature of her decision.
Biden has been an educator for more than three decades. She taught English at Northern Virginia Community College during the eight years her husband, President Joe Biden, served as vice president in the Obama administration.
She is planning to continue to teach at Northern Virginia Community College as first lady, but her office is not releasing any further details.
“As she did as Second Lady, out of respect for the privacy of her students and to preserve the integrity of her classroom, Dr. Biden will keep her teaching at Northern Virginia Community College separate from her public role," Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa told ABC News in a statement.
Kate Andersen Brower, the author of several bestselling books on first ladies and the White House, described Biden's decision to continue teaching as "unprecedented" in American history.
"It is unusual for a second lady to work but unprecedented for a first lady," Andersen Browertold "Good Morning America" in December. "I know from talking to the campaign that there is an understanding that she doesn’t know if she can balance both teaching and being first lady quite yet, but there is a sense of this is her hope and this is what she wants to do because she loves teaching, and it's the career that she's carved out for herself that is unique and different from her husband's."
Andersen Brower said Biden continuing in her professor role would not only be unprecedented but also hopefully a significant shift in the trajectory of first ladies.
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"I think it's incredibly important for a woman to have her own identity, especially when you're married to a politician and now to the president," she said. "The idea that you would have to give up your entire life for your spouse seems very antiquated."
"I hope that people will accept Jill Biden's desire to teach, and that she's a wife and a mother and has a career," added Andersen Brower, who coined the term "Professor FLOTUS" to describe Biden's dual roles. "I hope that we’re at the point where we accept that, because I think if it was a man, we would definitely accept it."
While second lady, Biden worked on support for military families, helped her husband with his Cancer Moonshot initiative and led initiatives to highlight community colleges across the country, all while teaching English and earning her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in 2007.
In addition to her doctorate, Biden also holds two master's degrees, both of which she earned "while working and raising a family,"according to her official White House biography.
Biden wasforced to defend her doctor title last yearafter aWall Street Journal op-ed called on her drop the "doctor" titlefrom her name because she is not a medical doctor.
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The op-ed's author, Joseph Epstein, wrote that the use of doctor by Biden "sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic," adding that, "A wise man once said that no one should call himself 'Dr.' unless he has delivered a child."
“That was such a surprise," Biden said on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" in response to the op-ed. "It was really the tone of it that I think that -- you know, he called me kiddo."
"And one of the things I'm most proud of is my doctorate," she said. "I mean I worked so hard for it."
Together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather than diminished.
— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden)December 14, 2020
Joe Biden also expressed displeasure about the op-ed, telling Colbert of his wife's accomplishments, "She had two master’s degrees and she kept going to school all the time while teaching at night."
In response to the op-ed, women took to Twitter to encourage others with degrees to add them to their name.
"Today I added “Dr” to my profile name. Thanks WSJ for the nudge," wrote Dr. Laura Scherer, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Medical School.
Today I added “Dr” to my profile name. Thanks WSJ for the nudge
— Dr. Laura Scherer (@ldscherer)December 12, 2020
Biden is entering her role as both First Lady and college professor at a time when women currently make up nearly half of the workforce in the U.S., and nearly one-third of all employed women are working mothers,according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)andthe Census Bureau.
In hiselection victory speech in November,Joe Biden described his wife as both a military mom and an educator who will make a "great" first lady.
"She dedicated her life to education. Teaching is not just what she does, it’s who she is," he said. "For American educators, it is a great day for y’all. You’re going to have one of your own in the White House. And Jill is going to make a great first lady. I am so proud of her."
