EQUAL PAY FOR MEN AND WOMEN.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1928, Page 2

EQUAL PAY FOR MEN AND WOMEN.

“The Civil Service is one of tlio few professions now left in which women, even though doing identical work, receive less remuneration than their male colleagues,” writes the Civii service correspondent of the ‘‘Daily Telegraph.” “This question of equal pay for equal work is one ot the four principal items in the programme which the Civil service associations are preparing to submit to Parliamentary candidates at the approaching general election. r l he House of Commons, on two occasions passed resolutions in favour of the principle of equal pay. The first of these resolutions. on May 5, ITdO. endorsed the principle without qualification. The second added the proviso that, owing to the financial position, the question should be reviewed within three years. And there the matter has remained ever since, so far as the Civil service is concerned, I In' men object to the lower rate sanctioned for women, because it leads to the displacement of men, and the women object because they consider it humiliating to their sex, as well as unjust on economic grounds. In most instances, the starting pay is the same for both sexes. It is in the higher scales that the differentiation is most marked.”