Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions and Prospects
General
Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions and Prospects
Vocational guidance; Women -- Employment -- Great Britain
The most varying reports are given as to the incomes to be made in
private practice and it is almost impossible to get at the truth,
because it is obviously to everybody's interest to make them appear
as high as possible. A woman's practice also is admittedly rather a
specialist one. She does not get the general local practice of the
ordinary practitioner, but instead certain selected women who want to
consult a member of their own sex. These often live at considerable
distances, thus making the work more difficult to arrange and the
travelling more expensive than in the case of the ordinary medical
man. It is rare for a woman to be able to buy a practice. She must
generally build it up for herself, as it is of little or no use for
her to buy a man's practice, and there are only very few women's
available.
Generally, it may be stated that a woman covers her expenses by about
the third or fourth year after starting, and she may ultimately make,
according to the district and her success, anything between £400 and
£1,500 a year. Frequently two medical women settle together, which
seems to be a very good arrangement.
(c) If she elect to enter the public service her outlay is very small.
Beyond equipping herself for this work in certain special branches
already described, all that is necessary is that she should be able to
keep herself until she obtains a suitable post. The salary given for
whole time work in the public service should not be less than £250 a
year rising to £400 or £500 a year. In most cases the school doctor
gets the school holidays, including the whole of every Saturday.
English women who go to India, do so generally in connection with
either
(1) a missionary society, or
(2) a hospital under the Dufferin Fund.
(1) Many missionary societies engage medical women to treat the native
women. Salaries, of course, differ, but are, on the whole, low, as the
aim of a missionary is not supposed, primarily, to be financial gain.
Generally somewhere about £110 in English money is given, with
an allowance for carriage and house including the chief items of
furniture. Leave is also granted with second class return fare every
five years--in some missions every three years. The medical experience
is excellent, the opportunities of doing good professional work are
practically unlimited, and the professional position of the doctor
quite untrammelled. She is assisted, usually, by good nurses, under a
proper scheme, these being Indian girls superintended by fully trained
English sisters.
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