New-York tribune., 1874-12-26
WAGES PAID WOMEN TEACHERS IN NEW
YORK

THEIR SALARIES SMALLER IN NEw-Y0RK on ACCOUNT
OF THEIR SEX-wEsTERN CITIES CITED THAT
MAKE NO DISCRIMINATION - SALARIES THERE
BASED UPON THE QUALITY OF TIE WORK.
TO tAe Editor Of The Tribune
SIR: Your Board of ApportiOnment insists
on reduction OF $4,000 in the estimates OF the Board
of ucaton the Board of Education declares that
the demand be complied with only by taking seven
per cent of the teachers salaries. II refreshing to
md editor OF honest newspaper pointing to the
SbertTs office, with its income OF $J0,VO0 year, as
filter place for the application OF reform The balance
be easily secured by taking two three cent
from salaries upward Of 5000 which the city pays for
lower Intelligence less experience, and devotion infe
ror TO that required Of the teachers in the public
schools.
But a glance at the salaries paid your
teachers-a schedule was published the other day
fills ookcr-on with astonishment. II the wages paid
your teahers do not admit OF reductionand decency
declares that factsurely they are in urgent need Of
equalization. Are you aware that the clearheaded City
Of Eew-York pays twice and three times as much
as 1t pays women for doing the same wOrkf Have you
noted that the metropolis Of the Western Continent the
OF intellectual Of mercenary activity mulcts
women heavily on account Of their sexf Do you know
that the Board Of Education takes for s standard Of
pay gender OF the worker and not the quality Of the
works L. 1t sex work that Is to be paid fort
have the table Of salaries this moment at hand.
ton 10 maintained principle. Men receive 1900.
nsoo and downward TO s2.OOc and tl 800. Women re-
ceve in very 500, 81, 200 81 ooo most COM
mouly $500, and downward to q pittance. In or
more instances exceptionally high salary ia paid
man furnishing exceptional talent special skill but
the existence OF the principle that man is TO be paid
more because lie is q man. and woman less because
she is woman manifest that nobody will bother
You with general denial Of It, II the Board OF Eiuca-
non we're asked why it steals 81 year from
principal and gives II 10 principal directing the
number OF pupils in another district, the members
would reply frankly that they know OF reason except
that IL has always been the way.
age Of wrong as reason for its
continuance. Tho older the injustice the
speedier should be- IT. correction. Surely New
York not disposed TO plead tradition in defense Of
tbs did the South for its peculiar institution Very
paying for instead Of for work will be pecu-
isr 70 NewYork There 10 scarcely respectable city
In the East Northwest that has cleansed itself OF
the meanness In Chicago all the positions with few
conspicuous exceptions requiring physical endurance
or business knowledge. are open to men and women.
The salaries are nxed to the places and Sxed solely
BY the duties TO be performed Pncioas Of the largest
schools receive tSp the rst year. 20o the secoDd
and a. 400 the third Several women are now drawing
these stipends any OF them resigned, and men were
appointed 70 the vacancies the figures would remain
tho same, and vice This tho only honest prir
"ss N psehs suyssy psat; the vsses are ps'd for