HC Deb 12 July 1917 vol 95 cc2106-7
67. Major HUNT

asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the fact that about two-thirds of the teachers in elementary schools are women, and that only four out of the sixteen members appointed on the Departmental Committee are women, he can see his way to increasing the number of women on this Committee?

The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)

I am satisfied that this Committee, as now constituted, is fully competent to consider the subject of their reference in all its aspects, and that it will do full justice to any evidence or representations which are placed before them. They are not asked to deal with rates of salary, but only with the principles on which salary scales should be constructed.

Major HUNT

Why, under the circumstances, were so few women put on this Committee?

Mr. FISHER

Because I consider it is very well constituted as it is.