31: Equal Pay for Equal Work

Notice the words, “a person.” Here is no differentiation between male persons and female persons. Yet the City of New York pays a “male” person for certain “professional services” $900, while paying a “female” person only $600 for the same “professional services.” Stranger still, it pays for certain experience of a “male” person $105, while paying a “female” person only $40 for the identical experience. These are but samples of the “glaring inequalities” in the teachers’ salary schedules.

Why is the male in the teaching profession differentiated from the male in every other calling, when his salary is concerned?

Why does the city differentiate the woman it hires to teach its children from the woman it hires to take stenographic notes, use a typewriter, follow up truants, inspect a tenement, or issue a license?