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Show I Women Occupations. ! . I , T CDGING FROM THE CENSUS re- I turns of 1900 there should be no J longer any doubts that women .lave succeeded in obtaining their rights in every industry of life. Sex is no ' barrier in the different occupations 1 303 in number to fill the various avo- I cations. In 295 they are fairly repre- j nented. Hitherto the sexes were con- j sidered different, with no relation of I equality or inequality, but judging from j the following list taken from the cen- """ SUE) we have at last found a common denominator for both. The list is both interesting and instructive. To head the list we have: "Servants, 1,283,763; agricultural laborers, 663,209; farmers and planters, 307,706; dressmakers, dress-makers, 344,794; laundresses, 335,282; traders, 327,614; textile workers, 277,972. There are 3,373 women clergymen; 1,041 architects; 7S6 dentists; 2,193 journalists; journal-ists; 1,010 lawyers; 7.3S7 physicians, and 14 women veterinary surgeons." The United States has not employed their services to fight for their country coun-try either on land or sea, "yet there are 153 women employed as "boatmen" and sailors. Women have not yet invaded the ranks of the city fire departments, still not less than 879 women are returned re-turned in the same general class of "watchmen, policemen, and detectives." There are no women street car drivers, driv-ers, though there are two women "mo-tormen" "mo-tormen" and 13 women conductors. They have not as yet taken up the employment em-ployment of telegraph and telephone "line men," yet 22,556 of them are operators oper-ators for these companies. There are no women apprentices and helpers among the roofers and slaters, yet two women are returned as engaged in these employments. There are 126 women wom-en plumbers; 45 plasterers; 167 brick and stone masons; 241 paperhangers; 1.759 painters and glaziers, and 545 women carpenters and joiners. No women are returned as helpers ' to steam boilermakers, but 8 women work at this industry as full mechanics. There are 193 women blacksmiths; 571 machinists; 3,370 women workers in iron and 'steel; 890 in brass, and 1,775 women workers in tin." "Among other unusual women workers work-ers are 100 "lumbermen and raftsmen;" 113 wood choppers; 373 sawmill employes; em-ployes; 440 bartenders; 2,086 saloonkeepers; saloon-keepers; 904 "draymen" and teamsters; 323 undertakers; 143 stone cutters; 63 "quarrymen;" 65 whitewashes; 11 well borers, and 177 stationary engineers and firemen." The number employed as barbers is not given, but the writer can assure his readers that as tonsorial artists he found but a few who could wield the razor with greater dexterity than a woman barber in Kansas City. |