The first first lady to hold a job

Jill Biden returns to her job as a teacher at Virginia Community College

Jill Biden during one of her school tours.

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US First Lady Jill Biden will return to her former job as a teacher at Northern Virginia Community College, where she is the first first lady to hold a full-time job during her stay at the White House, and has taught her students remotely last semester, and has been working at the college since 2009, even during the tenure of her husband, current President Joe Biden, when he was Vice President Barack Obama.

"There are some things you just can't do without, as I can't wait to go back to class," she recently told Good Housekeeping.

The first lady has been eager to see her students face to face after more than a year of virtual teaching, due to the pandemic that remains a challenge to the Biden administration.

Boston University communications professor Tammy Vigil, who has written a book about first ladies, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, says a working first lady is a "great value," and the country's first ladies were not entrusted to work outside the home, especially if their home was the White House, and they were They provide support to their husbands, are keen to raise children and play the role of hostess.

Some first ladies served as special ambassadors for their husbands. Eleanor Roosevelt was particularly active, traveling around the United States, reporting to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose activities were limited by his paralysis, advocating for the poor, minorities, and other disadvantaged people, and practicing Writing in a column for a national collegiate newspaper at the White House.

More recently, first ladies such as Laura Bush, who was an elementary school teacher and librarian, stopped working outside the home after having children and took no jobs after their husbands were elected presidents. But they decided not to pursue their careers when they entered the White House.

Jill Biden, 70, is carving a new path for herself and her successors, saying she has always wanted to be a working woman, and has continued to teach in the virtual world as first lady, from her office in the East Wing of the White House, hotel rooms, or on flights when she was traveling to promote. management policies.

"It breaks the standards of what First Ladies do," says Randy Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Jill Biden is trying to keep her political identity out of the classroom, and said that many of her former students in Virginia had no idea about her marriage to the Vice President, nor did she talk about it in front of them, and during that period Secret Service agents accompanied her to protect her, but she made them wear clothes Informal and backpacking, trying to blend in with the campus environment.

First ladies appear at many public events, with or without the president, to promote their causes or those of the president, and to get coverage from the national and local media.

Vogue magazine published a picture of the first lady on the cover of its August issue.

Northern Virginia Community College President Ann M. Kris says she looks forward to welcoming students and faculty, including Jill Biden, for the fall semester and is grateful for their commitment to "excellence in teaching and equal opportunity."

• Recently, first ladies stopped working outside the home, after having children, and did not join any work after their husbands were elected presidents.

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