Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Women in the Executive Civil Service.—The extent to which women are or may be employed in a service has an important bearing on many problems of personnel administration. The earlier history of the employment of women in the federal civil service is given in a letter from Charles Lyman, Civil Service Commissioner to Hon. Henry W. Blair of the House of Representatives, dated June 19, 1894. The letter reads in part as follows: Women were first employed in the public service in Washington under authorization of law in 1862, at a compensation of $600 per annum, and in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, under General Spinner.1 Previous to that time a few women had been employed temporarily in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, not, however, in a clerical capacity, but in the mechanical labor of clipping the fractional currency. Shortly after the organization of the Internal Revenue Bureau in August, 1862, probably as early as the 1st of January, 1863, and perhaps earlier, a few women were employed in that bureau at a salary of $600 per annum. Subsequently the salaries of women were increased in the appropriation acts to $720 per annum and to $900 per annum; and for a number of years no women were employed at a salary above $900, and that grade was practically monopolized by them, but few men being appointed thereto. In a few instances women were promoted to $ 1,000 and $1,200 salaries, and even to higher grades, before the passage of the civil service law; but these cases were rare exceptions. The effect of the Civil Service law, however, aided by a gradual change in public sentiment in relation to the employment of women in occupations before monopolized by men, has been to open to women in the public service the higher grades; and at the present time...