The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-30
RECOMMEND
.APPORTIONMENT
NEW CIVIL COMMISSION iNcLUD-
ING WOMEN Is RECOMMENDED
BY ADVIRORY COMMISSION ON
EMPLOYMENT POLITICS.

Washington, Nov. ga new kind
of civil service commission, to be COM
posed of representatives of administra-
tive officials of the government, the
employees, and the outside public,
with at least two women members, is
one recommendation of the advisory
commission on employment policies
which has just reported to the joint
congressional commission on reclassi-
fication of the civil service This rec
ommendation is embodied in the report
of a subcommittee on employment
conditions of women in the civil SER
vice, of which subcommittee the chair
man is Miss Gertrude McNally, sec
rotary e the Women's Union of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and
vice president of the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees. Miss
McNally and her committee have as
sembled a mass of data showing the
discrimination that exists in the gov
eminent departments against the wom-
en- employees in respect to pay and
opportunities for advancement, and
one emphatic recommendation in the
report is for Legislation to forbid
discrimination between men and wom-
en- in respect to opportunity for en-
trance, pay for work of the same char
portunity for advancement" Then fol-
lows a recommendation:
THAT in order to make the law eff
fective and overcome the practice so
clearly evident In the departmental
service to- give preference to men in ap-
pointments, salary and opportunities
for advancement, the commission rec
commend to congress that the admin
istrative agency of the civil service be
composed of not less than two rep
resentatives of the employees, and
possibly a similar representation of the
public, one member of each of the
two former groups to be a woman.
This central administrative agency
shold have the functions of an en-
ployment management bureau, and the
authority, where one sex or the other
is specified by the department, to
throw the burden of proof as to the
propriety of such a requirement back
upon the appointing officer"
1T should also be noted that such
studies as have been made show that
the wage earning woman's family re-
sponsibilities tend to diminish as she
grows older, because of the fact that
her dependents are so oftn older than
herself. Her heaviest financial bur
den therefore is likely to come in her
early working years, instead of at the
time the mans family expenses are
at their normal"
In its findings OF fact, the report
states: Cd That men are given pref
erence over women in civil service ap
pointments and in entrance pay. I'm
til its recent issue, the civil service
manual itself called attention to this
difference, men steuographers being
offered 5000 to $1,000, as compared
with 1920 10 5000 for women eligibIes
from the same examination. CD Men
are given preference in promotion TO
such extent that few women, however
highly qualified, are allowed to reach
executive or technical positions and
the better salaries. ca Women are
paid less than men for the same Job
poIn an entrance and afterwards. (4)
Skilled women are paid less than un-
skilled men in the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing, for example, in the
government post office, the hall bag
repair shop OF the post office depart
ment, and throughout the clerical SER
vice.
In view Of these facts the commit
tee recommends:
Because of the traditional attitude