be desirable in the true interests of education is a far
more doubtful matter. And this is the real problem
of "equal pay for equal work" for male and female
school teachers. The reader will notice that I have
refrained from alluding to the controversy as to whether
men should receive more on the grounds that they have
wives and families to maintain. That, although a most
absorbing issue, is not the real issue in practice at the
present time. The real issue is a clashing between a
sense of "what should be" on obvious general grounds
and a sense of "what should be" in the particular, de-
rived from the very patent and general "what is" that
men receive as a rule far higher pay than women.

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