MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4418, 22 February 1930, Page 3

MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS

VIEWS OF ASSOCIATION

PRESERVATION OF RIGHTS. Advice that the Minister of Education had approved of legislation to give education boards discretionary power in the appointment of married women teachers was received from the Education Department by the Auckland Education Board recently. It was stated that (be Minister had been unable to introduce the necessary amendment to the Education Act during the iast session. A letter was received from the Minister to the effect that the education committee of inquiry was considering the matter and would make a recommendation covering the whole question. A circular, claiming to set forth the considered opinion of women teachers, was received from tha New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association. The circular stated: “We wish to enter the strongest possible protest against any curtailment of an individual woman’s rights to. work out her own destiny as a human being according to the abilities which have been vouched to her. The State’s business, we contend, is to provide for New Zealand children the best possible teachers, and it is not part of the State’s business to decide whether a woman shall work inside her home or outside it. We believe that a married woman has the right to work at a profession apart from her home if she so pleases.”