Show The Sexes in the United States Almost all the Southern States Live a nearly equal nembor of each sex In I Massachusetts the females between 20 and 50 years of age exceed the males of the same ape by about 44000 In seventyeight cities the excess of females is 148000 That illiteracy prevails I pre-vails more among women is due probably prob-ably to the foreign population Women contribute less to pauperism the proportion I pro-portion being 31000 to 301000 The ratio of prison inmates stands 5063 women I to 64190 males Women are in excess among the insane j men in excess among the idiotic blind and deaf mutes The proportion of women who engage in occupations oc-cupations outside of the household is smaller in the United States than in foreign countries but in no country is I the proportionate number engaged in I superior industrial occupations equal to I that in this country Of the 2047000 i women in occupations 595000 are engaged en-gaged in agriculture most of them colored women in the Southern States II 632000 are in manufactories of whom about onehalf are in New York I Massachusetts and Pennsylvania 232 000 are milliners etc 50000 are tailors Of the fortyfour occupations recorded as personal service forty I find women in them The 525 female surgeons of 1870 have increased to I 2473 the seven lawyers to seventyfive the sixtyfive clergymen to 165 The I J number of laundries has increased from 61000 in 1870 to 122000 and of the I latter 103000 are kept by women This large increase shows a great lightening of the housewifes labor I I |