The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-08
WOMEN ARE OUT
OF THE Vienna
PUBLIC SCHOOL
THEORY OF so -ssy o'scRiMlnA
TON HAS seaA sAIseo AND
EMPIOYM @ AUSTRIA IS
Under RevssW
BY ASSO IA rTD ESS


Vienna, Ma.'.n ~ ansn have Iss~n
shut out, ter,.Awsr01 - least from
any new plac@ o tos a-A@:hing staffs
Of the Vienna caoa. .cs.ooss The.sTy
Of unjust d~sr.n,nAti N nee o~sn
raised. and N. ~n-.le .ues~.s.sa uf wo
mems emplo, sn ems in Aus RIA In under
review.
for teachers 10 tne p.oiic schools is
taken by tn. S-sn;A city council on
the ground :aAs 80 few vacancies
exist that f5~ther applications for
employment of women teachers will be
received ur,-i; f:rther notice" Nothing
is said, ho:vev -, about men teachers.
Since the population is increasing
steadily a~d new schools are constant
ly required, the councils action Is re-
garded as extraordinary. Some trace
it to the agitation among women
teachers for pay on equal terms with
men.
AT present women teachers are paid
on a far lower scale than their male
colleagues, although they perform the
same work, and have been required to
go through exactly the same course
of preparation and to take the same
examination as the men. For some
time past they have been voicing their
complains at this treatment, alleging
that nearly ali the best positions In
he schools are reserved for men. The
Christian Socialist. ma jority in the city
council, however, argues that as wo-
men are not heads of families with
children dependent upon them for sup
port they have no claim TO be Paid
as high salaries as men. The women
deny that this has anything to do with
the case, and say that even if ii had
they too are often called upon to sup
port aged Parents or younger brothers
and sisters.
Throughout Austria the employment
OF women in professional and COM
mercial occupations is increasing
steadily. Young women are generally
willing to work for lower wages and
they are constantly crowding out the
men. Many OF the ticket clerks in the
railway stations are woman, and gov
eminent offices and banks are con-
stantly adding women to their staff.
So serious has he thrush of women
garded as exclusively masculine be-
come that the Austrian Ministry Of
Public Works is trying 20 offset the
consequences by establishing number
of high schools for instruction in
household economy. The first of these
will be opened at the beginning of the
rext school year in September. The
curriculum will be especially directed
towards trailing women in domestic
science to ena BILE them to occupy ad-
ministratfve positions as superintend-
ents or heads of public Institutions,
such as hospitals, sanitoriums, asy-
lunls, orphanages, schools, hotels and
boarding houses. The course of in
struCtion will extend over three years |
and will include all kinds of special !
classes as we'll as evening classes for |
young women engaged in earning their !
living N business du4i ing the day. 1t |
is claimed that there will not be a |
single subject in the plan OF instruc
ton which VIII not be of service to |
future wives and mothers.
The women's employment question |
has also been engaging the attention |
of the ministry of education and the |
Vienna educational authorities. Eff |
forts are being made to keep the chill !
dren leaving school from ,ntering upon !
blind alley" occupations as SO many
are doing at the present time An en-
ployment council has been organized in
Vienna, which will keep the public |
school teachers informed regaI ding the
conditions of labor in various branches. /
and it will be the duty of the teachers
to advise the pupils, and also the par
ents of the facts, and to urge that
they be taken into account In select
Ing the future occupation Of the child.
1t is hoped that this wilf not only
benefit the individual children but will
also tend TO improve the whole ma
tional economic situation