2.
As will be seen from the report for 1935 page 25, in controlled schools there were 4,214 girls receiving seconda ary education compared with 6,732 boys, and about 19,177
764 girls receiving primary education compared with 42, boys. That is to say about 50% of the children receiving education in Hong Kong are girls, and yet there is no
Therefore the women teachers in Hong woman inspector.
Kong urge the appointment of a woman inspector for two
reasons:
a. So that the special problems of girls' education may be guided be the expert advice of a woman inspector. b. To make the career of women in the service more attractive by creating a second super-scale post for
women.
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B.
There has always been discontent among the women teachers, particularly the graduates, in Hong Kong over their salary scale as compared with that of the men. The Burnham Scale has been accepted as a fair standard in England for twenty years, yet in Hong Kong all requests from the women teachers to have their salaries made to approach more closely the relative proportion of the men's salaries laid down in the Burnham Report have been refused In fact, last year the women teachers' salaries were cut so that the women's maximum was only 59% of the men's, and less than the maximum salary of a police or sanitary inspector. This produced such an outcry of indignation from men as well as women, that another tentative scale has been drawn up, but this still leaves the women's scale very poor indeed compared with the men's.
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