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 work in any department of Government where women and men are engaged on the same work, and as these appointments are of recent date, it may perhaps be taken as a gratifying instance of the advance of educated official opinion in the direction of equity.

Women have from time to time served their country as members of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees. These are not salaried posts; but they are offices of very high honour, to which people are appointed by the King and the Secretary of State. Women sat on the Commission of Inquiry into the condition of Education in 1867; Mrs Fawcett was appointed a member of the Royal Commission which went to South Africa to inquire into conditions in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War; Mrs Sydney Webb and Mrs Bosanquet were members of the important Poor Law Commission; Lady Frances Balfour and Mrs Tennant were members of the Royal Commission on Divorce; and Mrs Streatfeild and Miss Haldane sit at present on the Royal Commission to inquire into Civil Service appointments.