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Extract from Salaries Commission Report
Hong Kong.
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Remuneration of Women.
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We have given careful consideration to the remuneration of women who do work comparable with that done by male officers. In particular we have considered the case of women doctors, schoolmistresses and women clerks. We have studied the report of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay 1944-46 and we are of the opinion that the remuneration of a woman officer should be approximately 80% of that of a male officer doing comparable work. We have been influenced in making this recommendation by our decision referred to in paragraph 65 below not to support the introduction of family allowances. We have, therefore assumed that the salary of a male officer should be sufficient under normal circumstances to enable him to support a wife and children and that a female officer will not normally have similar commitments. We also understand that it is possible that existing restrictions on married women continuing to serve on the permanent pensionable establishment may be modified where this will not unduly interfere with the prospects of employment for single self-dependent
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