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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
III. THE NURSING PROFESSION TOGETHER WITH
MIDWIFERY AND MASSAGE. Sub-Editor: CHRISTINE M.
MURRELL
PREFACE. By the Sub-Editor I. GENERAL SURVEY AND
INTRODUCTION. By E.M. Musson. Matron of the General Hospital,
Birmingham
II. NURSING IN GENERAL HOSPITALS. By E.M. MUSSON
III. NURSING IN PRIVATE HOMES AND Co--OPERATIONS. By

GERTRUDE TOWNEND, Sister in her own Nursing Home; late
Deputy-Sister, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; late Matron, Royal Ear
Hospital, Dean Street
IV. NURSING IN POOR LAW INFIRMARIES. By ELEANOR C.
BARTON, President of the Poor Law Infirmary Matrons' Association
V. NURSING IN FEVER HOSPITALS. By S.G. VILLIERS, Matron
of the South-West Fever Hospital
VI. DISTRICT NURSING. By AMY HUGHES, General
Superintendent of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses
VII. NURSING IN SCHOOLS AND NURSES AS INSPECTORS. By
H.L. PEARSE
VIII. NURSING IN HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE. By a Matron of
one of them
IX. NURSING IN THE COLONIES. By A. FRICKER, Matron of the
Colonial Hospital, Trinidad, under the Colonial Nursing Association
X. NURSING IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. By the Sub-Editor
XI. PRISON NURSING. By the Sub-Editor
XII. MIDWIFERY AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN (OTHER
THAN DOCTORS). By ANNIE M'CALL, M.D., Senior Medical
Officer and Lecturer, Clapham Maternity Hospital and School of
Midwifery; late Lecturer in and Demonstrator of Operative Midwifery,
London School of Medicine for Women; Examiner, Central Midwives'
Board; Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the London County
Council for the Supervision of Midwives in the County of London
XIII. MASSAGE. By EDITH M. TEMPLETON, Secretary of the
Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses
IV. WOMEN AS SANITARY INSPECTORS AND HEALTH
VISITORS. By (Mrs) F.J. GREENWOOD, Sanitary Inspector,
Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, late Chief Woman Inspector,
Sheffield; Associate Royal Sanitary Institute; Certificate, Central
Midwives' Board; Diploma, National Health Society
V. WOMEN IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
I. THE HIGHER GRADES: PRESENT POSITION AND
PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE. By a Woman Civil Servant
II. THE LOWER GRADES AND THE PRESENT POSITION. By
Another Woman Civil Servant
VI. WOMEN CLERKS AND SECRETARIES. By (Mrs) ELSPETH

KEITH ROBERTSON SCOTT
VII. ACTING AS A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN. By LENA
ASHWELL
APPENDIX I. SCHEME OF WORK OF THE FABIAN WOMEN'S
GROUP
APPENDIX II. LATEST CENSUS RETURNS OF WOMEN
WORKERS IN THE SEVEN PROFESSIONS CONSIDERED IN
THIS BOOK

FOREWORDS
ON BEHALF OF THE STUDIES COMMITTEE OF THE FABIAN
WOMEN'S GROUP
The present economic position of women bristles with anomalies. It is
the outcome of long ages of semi-serfdom, when women toiled
continuously to produce wealth, which, if they were married, they
could enjoy only at the good pleasure of their lords,--ages when the
work of most women was conditioned and subordinated by male
dominance. Yet in those days the working housewife commanded the
consideration always conceded to a bread-winner--even when
dependent. In modern times women's economic position has been
undermined by the helpless dependence engendered amongst the
well-to-do by "parasitism" resulting from nineteenth-century luxury--to
quote the striking word of Olive Schreiner. Similarly, dependence has
been forced upon large sections of women-folk amongst the manual
workers by the loss of their hold upon land and by the decay of home
industries. Now a new force is at work: the revolt of the modern
woman against parasitism and dependence in all their forms; her
demand for freedom to work and to choose her sphere of work, as well
as for the right to dispose of what she gains.
Six years ago