DEARTH OF TEACHERS
EQUAL PAY DEMANDED FOR WOMEN By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright "Times" cad Sydney "Sun" Services. London, April 14. At the Teachers' Conference, the president, Mr. W. B. Steer, stated that the dearth of teachers was duo to thafltmattractiveness of the profession, chiefly the poor pay. The average salary of certificated headmasters was £146, and of mistresses £101. Thero were fourteen" thousand fully qualified teachers who were not earning a. living wage. Miss Croxon moved for equal pay to men and women teachers. Sho asserts that girls, as future mothers of tho race, were every whit as important as the coining fathers. A man interjected: Drop this silly physiological drivel I Another remarked that teaching was rapidly becoming a woman's profession, and male teachers would soon bo as extinct as the dodo. The proposal was defeated by an overwhelming majority.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2124, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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141DEARTH OF TEACHERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2124, 16 April 1914, Page 5
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