THE MARRIAGE STATE
AND WOMAN TEACHERS QUESTION OF EMPLOYMENT WELLINGTON, To-day. A lively discussion took place yesterday at the New Zealand Educational Conference on the question of the employment of married women as teachers in the State schools. Many remits were received advocating that no discrimination in regard to the marriage state should be used tn the appointment of teachers, and that the grading list should be the sole criterion.
Miss A. C. Finlayson, North Canterbury, said It was all a question of efficiency. It would be an economic toss for education boards, to train Strls to be teachers only to lose them *hen they got married. Mr. F. L. Combe thought marriage s very necessary qualification for ‘he profession of school-teaching. Miss J. Robertson, replying to a remark about “economically independent women,” said there were some women whose husbands were setting £ 1.000 a year and who had scarcely enough money to buy a tr am ticket. The committee to whom the matter )vas referred recommended that the institute should affirm the policy that he marriage state should not be a Dar to employment. A shelving amendment was debated and the committee’s recommendation was carried by 65 votes to 50.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 9
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