| Description | File relating to the Land Commission employment of Female Inspectors. Examples:
Memo to the members of the Executive Council relating to the decision of the Minister for Finance that a special salary rate be fixed for women. Minister for Lands feels this would attract women applicants to the position of Land Commission Inspectors and he feels there are both moral and physical objections to the employment of women, July 1934.
Memo by the Department of Finance stating that women cannot be denied the right to compete for Land Commission inspectorships.
Cabinet minute recording the decision not to offer a special salary scale for women Land Commission Inspectors, 3 August 1934.
Letter from the Minister for Finance to Éamon de Valera stating that the decision not to offer a special salary scale for women Land Commission Inspectors 'would be liable to have embarrassing consequences for this department in the future in dealing with what has long been one of the most important wage problems not only in the civil service, but in the state as a whole, viz., equal pay for men and women', 20 August 1934. |
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