WOMEN IN AMERICA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 2

WOMEN IN AMERICA

CHANGING RATIO. RESULTS OP CENSUS. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. A female population increasing more rapidly than the male is revealed by tho recent census. In 1930 there were 102.5 males for every 100 females, compared with 104 males in 1920. The proportion of males to females is less among tho foreign-born. Females, however, outnumber males in tho cities. The urban population comprised 98.1 males to 100 females. This excess in the number of females was shown by all classes of the population, except the foreign-born whites, which recorded 111 males to 100 females.

In tho rural population there is a decided excess of males, tho ratio being 108.3. This is common to all the population classes, the rural foreignborn white showing 134 males to 100 females. The drift from the country to the cities is still apparent. In 1930, 5G.2 of tho population was urban, compared with 51.4 ten years ago. The “man’s State” of Nevada, which bad 148.4 men to each 100 females in 1920, now has 140.3. No other State even approximated the Nevada preponderance, though Wyoming, with 123.8 and 120 brought echoes of tho days when the plains heard chiefly the cowboy sing to restless herds. lu 1880, Alontana had 258 males per 100 females. Wyoming had 213 and Nevada 207.5.

The total population of 122,775,040 comprised 62,137,080 males and 60,637,966 females, an excess of 1,499,114 males, as compared with an excess of 2090 males in 1920.