4.
One of the reasons always put forward by men in Hong Kong for
giving women lower maximum salaries and no well-paid sendor
posts posts is that many women marry, and so there is not the same
I admit need to provide good prospects for women as for men.
that the marriage arguement might carry some weight in giving
women lower initial salaries, but think it grossly unfair to
penalise those who do not marry by cutting down the salaries
of senior posts. It seems to me still more unfair, in that
the women teachers are a comparatively inexpensive body of
Government servants in Hong Kong, because those who marry are
always replaced by women on the initial salary, and there are
therefore fewer highly paid women than men, and more women at
low salaries.
4.
There exist in England two standards of comparison in m
mens' and womens' salaries which could be applied to teachers
in the Colonial Service.
a.
The Burnham Scale which lays down relative rates of
pay for men and women teachers.
b.
The National Whitney Council's report of last year
which gives 80% of the mens' scale as the Maximum different-
iation in salary between men and women of the same grade.
We should be very happy to have either applied to us
We should like these facts to be put before those who
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