enefit was concerned, heard that she had been
approached by the friendly society, they elected her without asking
her consent to the very society from which they had previously
excluded her, in order that she might be unable to take the post in
question, whereby they might have financially suffered.

_Example 3_.--The exclusion from medical societies referred to under
Example 2, like many similar actions in life, tends to recoil on its
instigators. For instance, a medical woman in another northern town
applied for and accepted a post which the local men had decided was
unsatisfactory in some particulars, and for which therefore none of
them had applied. They were loud in their denunciations of the woman
in question, but owing to the fact that her men colleagues had not
recognised her professionally in other ways, she was quite unaware of
her offence for several months after undertaking her new duties.

_Example 4_.--Men and women are sometimes appointed on apparently
equal terms and conditions to posts which are not, however, really
equal, in that there is a chance of promotion for the men but none for
the women.

_Example 5_.--In another town in the north of England men and women
appointed to do the work of school medical inspection on equal terms
recently considered that they were not sufficiently remunerated. They
met and decided that they would together apply for better terms. A
rumour was then set abroad that the authority under whom they worked
would certainly not consider such an increase in expenditure. In this
crisis the men on the staff, although they had so far joined with
their women colleagues in sending up their petition, sent up another
of their own, without informing or consulting the women at all, in
which they said that they considered it was time that this equality of
remuneration for both sexes should cease. They begged the authority
to neglect their public appeal, but to grant instead increased
remuneration to the men, and the men only. One of the reasons given
for this suggestion on the part of the men was that their liabilities
were greater. The result of enquiry, however, proved that of the three
men, one only was engaged to be married, the other two had no one
dependent upon them; whereas of the three women, two were supporting
other people--one being a married woman separated from her husband and
with two children to support and educate.

_Example 6_.--The following is an instance of the wa