RATE OF WOMAN'S "INDUSTRIAL EMANCIPATION."

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

RATE OF WOMAN'S "INDUSTRIAL EMANCIPATION."

A recent United States census bulletin deals with the increase of the number of women engaged in professional occupations since 1870, and the results brought out are very striking. While the increase in the number of men engaged in gainful occupations generally has increased only 76 per cent, between 1870 and 1890, the increase for women during the period is 1 13 per cent. In professional occupations womenincreased over 237 per cent., against 126 per pent, for men, while in trade and transportation the increase for women is 1051 per cent., against 156 per oent. for men. The New York Literary Digest reproduces the list which shows the contrast between the two periods in the spheres of professional occupations and certain departments of trade and transportation :—: —

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Women Emplotid As — Acton.. ... Architects Artists and teachers of art . . . . Authors, literary and scientific persons .. Chemists, aasayere and metallurgist!) Clergymen . . Dentists Designers, draftsmen and inventors . . ISngineers and snr- | veyors Journalists Lawyers . . Musioians and teachers of music Government officials, Federal, State, and local Physicians and surgeons Teachers Theatre managers, showmen, &c, „ Veterinary surgeons . . Bookkeepers and accountants . . Clerks and copyists . . ' Stenographers and typewriters Saleswomen .. 1890. 3,949 22 10,810 2,725 46 1,235 337 306 127 888 208 34,519 4,875 4,555 245,965 634 2 27,777 \ 64,048 J 21,185 58,449 1870. 692 I 412 159 67 24 13 35 5 6,753 414 627 84,047 100 8,016 7 2,775