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Rong Government with a request for review of the position of women officers. On 22nd November, 1948, a reply was received stating that Government was not prepared to alter the

existing relationship between

salary scales for men and women officers.

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1949 on

that he was unable

That your Petitioner forwarded on 9th November, behalf of the women members of the Association a petition to the Secretary of State for Colonies through the Hong Kong Government. A reply was

was later received from the Secretary of State informing the women members

to intervene. "On 24th June, 1958, the Association wrote to Idong Kong Government on

behalf of it's women officers that it had formally advocated the adoption of the principle of equal pay for women officers. The Association was later informed that the

equal pay question would be referred to a Salaries bommission to be set up in 1959. In September, 1959, a Salaries Commission was appointed by His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong to consider inter alia " whether justification existed in Hong Kong for recommending women officers at the

male officers and, if not, what the differential should be." Unfortunately no constructive recommendations were made by this salarios Commission. All women officers felt very much disappointed.

your Petitioner had since then been making several representations to Hong Kong Government for sympathetic consideration until 12th September, 1962 a White Paper "Women's salary scale in Public service was published where Itong Kong Government admitted its partial agreement on

Association's request that limited number of serving women officers (289 out of the then 7989 serving women officers) would be allowed to enjoy with effect from 1st April, 1962 certain rights including salary and conditions of service being then enjoyed by the male officers. The

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