Married Women in Professions A question that has been disputed
for twelve years was settled last Tuesday by the London County Council, so far as its own area was concerned, when it decided that marriage should no longer be a bar to the employ. naent of women doctors and teachers in its service, It thus reverted, as Manchester did in 1928, to the pre-1928 position. The question should not be whether it is desirable or not desirable for married women to undertake professional work outside the home—that is • a matter which concerns the women themselves, not the employer, and women may reasonably feel it a grievance when employers dictate to them on questions of personal ethics. As it happens, in the two professions of teaching and medicine the experience of marriage may be an asset—particularly in the case of education. Many of the ablest women either refuse to enter a profession which includes this sex-disqualification, or they decide not to . marry. The continued employment of women should depend on their fitness or unfitness for work, and on no other consideration.
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