The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-08-19

Nurlola reasons nave HtEu l1eiku
far the discrimination In favor Of men
In the payment Of common school
teachers, aud, sufIraglsts are charged,
more or less justly. with laying too
much blame for the existing state Of
things upon the ''tyrant man." and
are pointed with a that settles.it sort
Of air 20 that principle Of political
economy which bears the blame for
many other wise ineXpllcable thing,
the law OF supply and demand, and
are told to take into consideration the
excess Of women. But women are
coming rapidly 10 believe that the
world 8 for those who take u, and
that men have taken g, % the OPP
preston % one sex, and the Injury 81
both aud the business Of the women
Oftbis sge is % demnRd b restoration
to take their rights and privileges |
a. wage workers and a. citizens 10
take them by peaceable aud lovely
measures Il possible, but 10 take them
at all hazard.
10 the law Of supply and demand Is
responsible for the discrepancy In the
wages Of teachers, how comes Il that
when there was only q very small
number Of woman applicants for
places ~ teaohersin the public schools |
that this discrepancy was greater Ia /
every state than it Is now In any.
when the prOportiOnate supply OF fe- |
Fnale teachers Is about one hundred /
times greateF2 Statistics show that /
we have now IN the United States |
ten female teacher6 90 one male, and |
the discrepancy Ia the wages b much |
less than when We bad one female !
teacher 10 100 male teachers. In Mas |
sschusetta where the female populas |
ton exceeds the male by lO0, 900 and |
the proportion Of female teachers 30 /
male is eight 10 one, the females re-
celve SAILS and the males tl0&O2 /
average per month. According 20 |
THE reasoning Il ought logically o. |
follow that In States where the ex. |
cess Of the female population is small !
60, and the supply Of female teachers
consequently smaller, that the ratio |
Of wages would change and the fe-
male teachers receive better relative /
pay. Hut such Is not quite the case. |
Travelling westward We find the exi 1
csss Of women lessening, and we need |
70 no further than Ohio ID find the |
Surely on this Journey westward flnG- |
ing the supply ever decreaslns, we |
must surely arrive at that eIyaium OF |
woman teachers, the place where |
wOmen are paid the same q men for /
the same work. Let rs see. In |
Pennsylvania, where the women are |
only 2O.O1O Ga excess, the average
monthly pay Of female teachers Is 1
So 81 the male teachers Ss847. A 1
little further west, In Ohio, where the /
male and female population Is nearest
equal, we ought, according 20 the /
reasoning referred 20, % find and
equilibrium Of wages but 90 cur cha
grin, We find that the average month
w salary Of the female teacher iu
Ohio h SIS Of she male teacher, SIS.
Travelling through Illinois, Kansas
and Nebraska we lnd the excess 6f
population with the male sex and the
exsRss Of salary stu with the teachers
of the same sex. We reach California
aud iind the males have the temerity
here 90 be 2O.O0O In excess and the
male teachers receIFing IN oVerage
salary - S8ls3St tie feralW eB.S7
The relative pag Of the lsu1hlc ter
u1eFs Increases, certainly. e. W -
westward but the theory that the en-
cess Of women, and The consequent
larEe supply account Tor the diB.
crepancy Ia the wages 81 male and e.
male TEACHERS, falls far short Of the
for which Il seems 10 haye
been formulated.
The faUi h that the wbrld being for
those who take ID, and vfnmeIl having
for ling afges bPeu taught TINT they
" en- iu take only what they were in
vited tn, have UNDERMINED their
work, and permitted men to do the !
same. Underlying this fact Is
aButher; when women made the At
tempt % ''get I'M as teachers, they .
had 20 combat with age-Old custom
and grey prejudice, besides the hu-
man selfishuess Of man, and this her
culean task had to be undertaken
Eithuut political power. Women and
their EoFk have always. beaa eltsap-
ened ~ their dlsfranCh felnkaa and | I
their disfranchisement O. the out !
growth Of that relic Of barbarian. the
dea Of the inferiorliy OF Won "a aud / !
Roman's work and her liberalization ]
n man. Thee Influences had closed
sad long kept elcsef towoneu "a bet
.hree aVocaticus. In the line on teach.
Ing women began hfst 10 widen their Y
% enployme1l h1t 6
l8ef 81 ihess Year.. and shCIr Epleh- ]
iid soccss, WDmen are We t4klne !
Imaller pay ior the same uoHk. Bot :
n The lGeepticn e their csc sitR. 4
Nth such fearful odds Egalnst them, 4
here was no cause len open 20 them
,gt 10 snterbid The male teachers,
md now thst theiF guotess as4eGeh- !.
~ b assuled, y remains feT ths1l % :
~ 81 high q money value on their
Eork a. men do On theirs, Instead Of
60 Etnrve out the men By
teachers wages % the MIMI
mum by the undertaking prueesa.
The work % women in the schools =
5 nov known and EaIn8d and tlle
iuse b come Whtn f shank he cor
paid Tor. The itniEle
eachers must bold lheu Ives -
lorth 80 much money O. the sehogls !
. Do their brothers wbo % 10 better :
FoTk. Now tllal WOmen ara coming (.
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