| Show I OHIO G i X I New cw York Tribune Persons alarmed at althe the intrusion of women Into the business w world will vili be bo as much In Interested In- In crested In tho lie latest census bulletin as tho the optimists aio are alo who rejoice at th tho Iho growing ro economic emancipation of oC the lie once weaker er sex Tho Census Bureau has just published a n careful stull study of the returns of 1000 1900 concerning tho ho character and anel scope of or work done by hy women In this country countr and anti brings to light facts nets pleasant an and unpleasant Roughly Houghl reckoned of nil all tho the twenty three and amI a n. half million American J women who confessed In I 1900 1910 OO to having hav hay big ing paS passed the age of oC sweet sixteen about one ono out of or earns carns her dally daily chewing gum sum by the lie perspiration of her fair brow blow The other oilier four our of each quintet either tend the baby rca read His Ills Hazel Byes Eyes wring ragtime from the piano or hunt servant Ser girls Just what the lie expert statistician sta ski will iii conclude me from this his fact I it t Is hn hard Id I'd to say j the he women who vho work at home homo are me of or course doing oln just justas as much from Crom tho the economic point of f view as their employed employed em em- sisters so that hat It Is hard to lo attach any great groat significance sig sig- to tho ho proportions Just stated state Perhaps ps the safest concu conclusion lon Is tho tIme ol obvious lous ono one that lint some of or the lie Jobs of or tho the world wend are aro being reshuffled tiB women wornon and men exchanging places Women may now bo be o found In all hut lUt nino nine of or the tho listed occupations but this fact cannot bo ho used to goo good advantage by 11 those who would woul havo have us tremble before the tho terrible prospect of or a n. feminine invasion of tho ho industrial and commercial world For the vast majority of or women are aro pursuing lines JInes of york work cognate cognato to those traditionally assigned to them About one quarto of or tho the workings omens sUcks sticks to tu domestic service It H are arc dr dressmakers are arc teachers look after tho the nations nation's laundry eIther cither help the farmers farmers' wives or run farms for Cor themselves find and n are aro housekeepers and steward steward- es esses es Thus the three million mark marl is almost touched by bythe bytho bythe the tho array of women who havo o not broken in upon any of or the occupations lon long monopolized b by men When we further consider er that nearly five hundred thousand of or orthe the remaining workers are aie negro and poor white field hands hanels in tho the South and anel that this cla class is not a new now one thero there remains only ono one other group of women onion toilers whose occupation and sizo size ma may bo be the theme of antl female orations that orations that Is Is tho the textile textile tex tex tex- tile mill operatives In Iii each of or about ono one hun hundred red and twenty occupations moro more than one ono thousand women have havo Intruded upon tho men and in nearly sixty of these moro than five thousand women havo have committed the tho same mo heinous crime When figures are arc compared with tho lie tot total t number of persons pursuing the tho various occupations where Intrusions ions have occurred the lie sta ski I t I lose oso much of or their superficially alarming char char- acter actor The most Important statistics In the report are ara those showing the tho kinds s of or women who tire pro arc at work Out o of every v Atc e Me sl si If lp i st t Iva t I n. n JM Ot I U S twenty sir I 7 S w oI y car J se e 0 no ow- ow ever iro ro ro Pl probably babIY not not altogether l'- l' safo safe arguments In r of tho the theory that tho the vast majority of ot women give up UI work because of oC marriage For It must be remembered bored bele that hat the tho economic con conditions driving American women to work have grown brown up only in the lie last twenty years yeal'S tho the relatively small number of elderly workingwomen working working- women is doubtless partly to be bo accounted for by y this fact A census taken to today ay would woul surely show a n somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what smaller percentage of or young women unless the total number of oC female la laborers has been greatly swelled by young Immigrants But the lie best est disproof of or the foregoing foregoing fore fore- going theory is found In the lie great increase of married marred In rim 1890 iso only emily ono one married woman in two twenty two worked whereas In 1900 ono one In eighteen dl did lid And moro more than one married In six ix ix supported a u family This will give many people food fond fur for reflection |
