(2) Professorial posts and Staff Lectureships.[4] These are almost entirely confined to Women’s Colleges, though there are a very few exceptions to this rule.  The University of London has established University Professorships and Readerships at the various constituent Women’s Colleges.[5] One of the former and several of the latter are held by women who have been appointed after open competition.  In addition, a woman, Mrs Knowles, holds a University Readership at the co-educational London School of Economics.  There are also one or two women professors at the newer Universities, but these as a rule retain their positions by right of past service in a struggling institution, not as a result of open competition, when University status had been attained and reasonable stipends were offered to new-comers.  The National University of Ireland has, however, appointed several women professors at its various constituent Colleges.

Salaries probably range from L300 to L700, the better paid posts as yet very seldom falling to women.

(3) Lectureships, assistant lectureships, and demonstratorships.  These are usually open to women in practice as well as in theory, though much depends on the personal idiosyncrasy of the head of the department, and on the importance of the post and the salary offered.  But since it is, unhappily, often easy to secure an able woman for the same stipend as that which must be offered to an inexperienced man, fresh from college, difficulties are not, as a rule, placed in the way of such appointments.  The salary begins at about L150 (sometimes less), and rises normally to about L200 or L250.  A few senior and independent lectureships are better remunerated.

(4) Closely allied with University work is the work of training teachers.  In Training-Colleges, and in University training-departments there is a constant demand for lecturers and mistresses of method.  These posts, which are remunerated on about the same scale as other University lectureships, are well suited to those whose interest lies mainly in purely educational matters.  Girls who have obtained good degrees, but who do not wish to devote themselves entirely to scholarship, will find here an attractive and ever-extending sphere of influence.  Lecturers in Training-Colleges must, of course, themselves hold a University teaching-diploma:  they should have school experience of various kinds, and they must be enthusiastic in the cause of training and of teaching.  For competent and broad-minded women there are many openings in this branch of the profession, and there is much scope for independent and original work in many directions.  The training of teachers, as well as actual teaching, is of the nature of scientific, experimental, and observational work.  Lecturers in Training-Colleges most of all, but to a large extent teachers of every degree, must be students of psychology and of human nature.  Mistresses of Method are well aware that the ideal type of training has not yet been evolved:  they are seeking new ways of carrying on their work and experimenting with new methods at the same time as they are guiding others along paths already familiar to themselves.  This absence of finality, characteristic of the teaching profession as a whole, and constituting one of its chief attractions, is especially noticeable in all work connected with the training of teachers.