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 DIFFERENCES OF WAGES PAID TO MEN AND WOMEN 655 Rates of Pay of Teachers i Edibnrgh Secondary Schools. Merchants' Company's Schools in Edinburgh (from their Report published 1890, April). SCHOOLS. NUMBEB. Men. Women. SALARIES. Men. Women. Georg WarsoWs Boys',School ........ 30 10 100 to 400 80 to 15 Daniel Stewart's Boys School ....... 17 4 100 to 400 ' 80 to 105 Edinburgh Ladies' Colteoe (Queen Street). . 7 14 110 to 800 ] 80 to 105 Oeorg Watsoh's Ladies' Cotlge (George Square) 4 19 ' 110 to 800 60 to 120 Ja.m. (illespie's Schoots (mixed boys and  5 for l}  v.w. grls) ................. t standardl ]IEN.  WOMEN. Three highest Salaries other than . 00 Lady Supenntendent .... t 150 Head Masters ....... 400 English, French, and German. 17 English and Modern Languages .250 16s. Highest Salaraes of' Class Teachers I 120 Highest Salaries of ' Class  71 16s. .115 Teachers' ...... Two lowest Salaries ....... I  78 Teachers and Pupil-governesses, 20 to 47. The work of teaching irls is, I presume, quite analogous to that of teaching boys, and judging from the percentage of passes, is, in the elementary schools at any rate, at least as efficiently per- formed. lIoreover in the lower standards, where boys and girls a male or a are mixed, it is often a matter of chance whether female teacher is employed. It must, however, be stated that although men and women teachers may perform exactly equivalent work, or even the same tasks, and perform them with equal result, yet their scholastic attainments are seldom equal. The examinations for women teachers are, on the whole, slightly less difficult than those for men; the women, too, are said not to take as great an interest in improving their qualifications, and are less frequently found to be competent to teach subjects not in their minimum curriculum. Thus, when the London School Board decided lately to divide the teachers of its evening classes into two grades, the lower conprising those able to teacll only elementary subjects, and the other in- cluding those competent to instruct in French, shorthand, &c., it was found that far more nen than women entered the higher grade. In the United States, where women teachers often alternate