Female Teachers Shouldn't Be Dismissed Simply Because They Marry, Says Court, Sept. 22, 1925

Marriage In Itself Not a Bar to Teaching

“Women teachers must not be dismissed merely because they are married.” This is the gist of a decision rendered in a test case brought in an English court. The decision is of far-reaching importance.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Ethel Short, has been assistant mistress in a council school in Dorsetshire since 1924, and she and other married women employed as teachers by the same local education authority received notice terminating their engagements. The chancery court decided that the notice was invalid and ordered the corporation to pay the costs.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1925

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