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Available from The Secretary, Teachers Federation of Victoria, 233 High Street, Kew, Vic. 3101. "I remember having rather spurious responsibilities like house mistress, which meant nothing except you had experience in crowd control." -- Back cover. "There was a woman vice-principal and a male vice-principal. But she had years of infants [teaching] experience, so she was known as 'the infant'." -- Back cover. "The principal was an odd one. He used to tell me, 'You needn't stay for any of these meetings. Go home and get your husband's tea'!" -- Back cover. "For instance, when little men turn up from the PMG and State Electricity and Security, they sort of say, 'Can I see the principal?'; or they ring up and say, 'Can I speak to the principal?' And I'll say, 'Speaking', and they'll say 'Oh, I thought you were the secretary'." -- Back cover. "It amazes me now when I talk to the young women who take paid confinement leave for granted. They don't realise the enormous efforts that the women made who are now older teachers and who had to put up the big fight in the 50s for women's permanency and the big fight in the 60s for equal pay, and yet those issues are just taken for granted now. They don't realise it was won by blood and toil and sweat and tears." -- Preliminary pages. Includes timeline of significant events for Victorian women teachers, 1872-1985, pages 63-72. Bibliography: p. 73-75. "It amazes me now when I talk to the young women who take paid confinement leave for granted. They don't realise the enormous efforts that the women made who are now older teachers and who had to put up the big fight in the 50s for women's permanency and the big fight in the 60s for equal pay, and yet those issues are just taken for granted now. They don't realise it was won by blood and toil and sweat and tears." -- Preliminary pages. Includes timeline of significant events for Victorian women teachers, 1872-1985, pages 63-72.