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Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith J. Morley
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patients in the clinic; six hours' Anatomy, two hours' Physiology, two
hours' Hygiene, two hours' Vaulting, three and a half hours' Dancing.
In addition to this, four afternoons (from 2 to 4 P.M.) are devoted to
games; class singing-lessons are given twice a week for half an hour,
in addition to a quarter of an hour's practice every day, and each
student teaches in the elementary schools three half hours a week, and
also gets some practice in the high school. Add to all this the time
required for private study, and it will be seen that the work is
fairly strenuous and that none but strong, healthy girls should
undertake it.

After the course of training the gymnastic teacher usually takes a
post in a school, and having had a few years' experience, may then
become an organiser or inspector to an education committee, a trainer
in an elementary training college or physical training college, the
head of the gymnastic department of a school clinic, or she may
prefer to start a private practice, holding classes, treating cases
of deformity, and also acting as visiting gymnastic teacher or
games-coach to schools in the neighbourhood.

The rate of remuneration varies according to the kind of work
undertaken; the initial salary in schools is usually £60 to £80
per annum resident, or £100 to £120 non-resident. Organisers and
inspectors command a much higher salary; the three Government
inspectors start at £200 rising to £400 with first-class travelling
expenses, and the four woman-organisers employed by the London County
Council Education Committee start at £175, rising by £10 a year to
£240 plus actual travelling expenses. Some women do well in private
practice, making from £200 to £300 a year. The salaries of the
gymnastic teachers in the London County Council secondary schools are
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