Equal Pay

DOI10.1177/026455054700500813
Date01 March 1947
Published date01 March 1947
Subject MatterArticles
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MARRIAGE GUIDANCE
EQUAL PAY
BRAINS TRUST
(Contributed)
Probation Service
Below are given 16 questions submitted for considera-
&dquo;When the Royal Commission published its report in
tion at a recent Trust. Readers may wish to produce
November, 1946, men and women in the Probation Service
their own answers.
received the same salary for the first eleven years. The
(1) In the choice of a child’s career, how far should
men then advanced by annual increments of ~,’18 to a
the child be given freedom, and how far should the
maximum of
parents have authority?
£ 450, the women remaining stationary. To-
(2) How are you to know, when you are engaged, that
day, with the new rates, even more discrimination is
the partner that you have chosen is the right one?
shown. Up to the age of 30, women receive £ 15 p.a. less
(3) Do you think that it is a good thing for husbands
than men of the same age; beyond the age of 30 there is
and wives to take their holidays apart?
an increase of £ 15 p.a. for every year of service, both for
(4) What can a married couple do about going out in
men and women, up to £460 p.a. Beyond that point, men
the evening together when they have small children?
advance by £ 20
(5) Is it wise for people of different denominations
p.a. to a maximum of £ 5’10 p.a.; women
to
marry?
remain stationary. Yet the work undertaken is the same
(6) How much or how little does money contribute to
and candidates are expected to have the same qualifica-
the success of married life?
tions. Indeed, before the war the experience of the Home
(7) Is it wise for people to have friends of the opposite
Department was that the education and other qualifica-
sex after marriage?
tions of women candidates tended to be higher on average
(8) In the case of an unhappy marriage, is greater
than those of the men.&dquo;
harm done to the children by the parents remaining
together amid constant quarrellings,
Professions
or by breaking up
the home?
&dquo;Concerning the...

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