EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK
Equal pay for equal work is discussed whenever teachers' meet in conference, for to them the question has a particular interest. The secretary of the New Zealand Secondary School Assistants' Association (Mr. F. M. Renner). pointed out to the delegates attending the association's conference to-day that under the recent Education Amendment Act, women teachers had benefited considerably more than male teachers. The average salaries of full-time women teachers, he said, were'increased by 43 per cent., whereas the salaries of male assistants were increased by only 28 per cent., but. he held, that average increase of 28 per cent, actually amounted .to only 16 per cent, for the majority of senior male assistants who were not first assistants. • •
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 6
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122EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 6
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