Women Workers in Seven Professions

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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.