CO129-574-1 Salaries and promotion prospects of women graduate teachers 5-8-1938 - 27-9-1938 — Page 33

Mr. Gent.

Position and Salaries of Women Teachers in

Hong Kong,

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You may remember that in April or May last

35082 PR. you had a talk with Miss Stephen of the Hong Kong

Education Department, as the result of which you sent

her on to me and you agreed that it might be useful

if she had a talk regarding the grievances to which

she vaguely referred with Dr. Esdaile, one of the

lady members of our Advisory Education Committee.

As the result of my talk I thought it advisable for

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her to have this talk with Dr. Esdaile, who, not long

ago, brought to me the attached Memo randum which represents Dr. Esdaile's summary of the talk, with the

MS addition by myself.

It seems to me that there is a definite case for

inquiry.

Grievances of somewhat the same nature had

been brought to my notice two years before by another

wo man member of the Department, and at that time the

only advice I could give her was that the women should

of put up a definite statement before the Director

Education for representation to the Government, and I

advised her also regarding "grievances" that seemed

to me worth representing and those that I thought could

hardly be regarded as such. I gathered from

Miss Stephens that they have since then made official

Their

representations. Hes difficulty, however, is that

they have never received final or definite replies

on which they could, if necessary, base a further

appeal to the Secretary of State.

I think the trouble