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Title: Women Workers in Seven Professions

Author: Edith J. Morley

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Language: English

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WOMEN WORKERS IN SEVEN PROFESSIONS

A SURVEY OF THEIR ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS

EDITED FOR THE STUDIES COMMITTEE OF THE FABIAN WOMEN'S GROUP

BY

EDITH J. MORLEY

1914

PREFATORY NOTE

The task of collecting and editing the various essays of which this book is comprised, has not been altogether easy. Some literary defects and absence of unity are, by the nature of the scheme, inevitable: we hope these are counterbalanced by the collection of first-hand evidence from those in a position to speak authoritatively of the professions which they follow. Experientia docet, and those who desire to investigate the conditions of women's public work in various directions, as well as those who are hesitating in their choice of a career, may like carefully to weigh these opinions formed as a result of personal experience.

For other defects in selection, arrangement, proportion and the like, I am alone responsible. I have, from the first, been conscious that many people were better suited to the editorial task than myself—women with more knowledge of social and economic problems, and, perhaps, with more leisure. But at the moment no one seemed to be available, and I was persuaded to do what I could to carry out the wishes of the Studies Committee of the Fabian Women's Group. If I have in any measure succeeded, it is owing to the generous help and unvarying kindness I have received in all directions. In the first place, I would express my gratitude to the members of the Studies Committee, and more particularly to Mrs Charlotte Wilson, the fount and inspiration of the whole scheme, to Mrs Pember Reeves, and to Mrs Bernard Shaw. My indebtedness to all the contributors for their promptitude, patience, and courtesy, it is impossible to exaggerate. I hope it will not be thought invidious if I say that without Dr Murrell's sub-editorship of the Medical and Nursing Sections, and the unstinted and continual help of Dr O'Brien Harris, the book could not have appeared at all. The latter's paper on "Secondary School Teaching" has had the benefit of criticism and suggestions from one of the most notable Head-Mistresses of her day—Mrs Woodhouse, whose experience of work in the schools of the Girls' Public Day School Trust was kindly placed at the author's disposal. Similarly, some of the details mentioned in the section on "Acting," were kindly supplied by Mrs St John Ervine. Lastly—for it is impossible to mention all who have assisted—I wish to thank Miss Ellen Smith for her unsparing secretarial labours, and Miss M.G. Spencer and Miss Craig, of the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women, for the Table which appears at the end of Section I. This is unique as an exhaustive summary of a mass of information, hitherto not easily accessible to the general public.

EDITH J. MORLEY.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, READING, December 1913.

CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE. By the Editor

FOREWORDS. ON BEHALF OF THE STUDIES COMMITTEE OF THE FABIAN WOMEN'S GROUP

I. THE TEACHING PROFESSION

  I. INTRODUCTION. By EDITH J. MORLEY, Oxford Honour
  School of English Language and Literature. Professor
  of English Language, University College, Reading.
  Fellow and Lecturer of University of London
  King's College for Women

  II. WOMEN AT THE UNIVERSITIES AND UNIVERSITY
  TEACHING AS A PROFESSION. By EDITH J. MORLEY

  III. SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHING. By (Mrs) M. O'BRIEN
  HARRIS, D.Sc., London, Hon. Member of Somerville
  College, Oxford. Headmistress of the County
  Secondary School, South Hackney

  IV. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHING. By (Mrs) KATE
  DICE, C.T., Class Teacher in the service of the London
  County Council, Hon. Sec. of the Fabian Education
  Group

  V. TEACHING IN SCHOOLS FOR THE MENTALLY AND
  PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE. By (Mrs) JESSIE E.
  THOMAS, C.T., Class Teacher at the London County
  Council School for Physically Defective Children,
  Turney Road, Dulwich

  VI. THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS. By MARY HANKINSON,
  Hon. Sec. of the Ling Association. Diploma of the
  Dartford Physical Training College

  VII. THE TEACHING OF DOMESTIC SUBJECTS. By (Mrs)
  MARGARET M'KILLOP, M.A. (Dublin). Oxford
  Honour Schools of Natural Science and of Mathematics
  Fellow and Tutor of University of London King's
  College for Women;
  and
  E. BEATRICE HOGG, first-class Diploma, National
  Training School of Cookery. Instructress, London
  County Council Probationary and Training Centres,
  Examiner in Domestic Subjects to the City and
  Guilds of London Institute, the Nautical School
  of Cookery, etc. Some time Hon. Sec. London
  Branch, Assistant Teachers of Domestic Subjects

  TABLE I. SHOWING THE COST AND DURATION OF
  EDUCATION IN ARTS AND SCIENCE, AND THE
  SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN STUDENTS
  AT THE VARIOUS BRITISH UNIVERSITIES. Reprinted
  (with additions), by special permission, from the
  pamphlet, "Openings for University Women," published
  by the Central Bureau for the Employment of
  Women for the Students' Careers Association

  TABLE II. SHOWING SOME ADDITIONAL POST-GRADUATE
  RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE
  AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN STUDENTS, AWARDED BY
  BODIES OTHER THAN UNIVERSITIES OF THE UNITED
  KINGDOM. Compiled (with additions) by special permission,
  from the "Report on the Opportunities for
  Post-Graduate Work open to Women" published by
  the Federation of University Women

II. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION INCLUDING DENTISTRY. Sub-Editor: CHRISTINE
M. MURRELL, M.D., B.S., London, Assistant Medical Officer of Health
(Special Schools) London County Council; Lecturer and Examiner on
Adolescence, Health, First Aid, Infant Care, etc., London County
Council and Battersea Polytechnic, Honorary Medical Officer,
Paddington Creche, and for Infant Consultations, North Marylebone;
late Medical Registrar and Electrician and late Resident House
Physician, Royal Free Hospital

I. MEDICINE AND SURGERY. By the Sub-Editor

  II. DENTAL SURGERY. By (Mrs) Eva M. HANDLEY
  READ, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A., L.D.S. Dental
  Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, the Margaret
  M'Donald Baby Clinic, and the Cripple Hostel
  Camberwell