Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-11
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EEMALE IiipAONMENfS.

A statisticiau in the Office OF the ST.
Louis Jopnut Of Commerce. has been
engaged in compiling from the late
census reports the percentage of
females IN the different trades and pro-
fessions, and finds that about thirteen
per cent. of all The population Of the
country credited With occupations are
women and girls. The general occu-
patton in which most females are emf
ployed for wages is that OF domestic
service. Strange as it may seem, the
next occupation in which the women
of America most seek their livelihoods
is that of agricultural laborer. Twice
as many of them work in the fields as
find a living rs milliners, dressmakefs
and seamstresses. And they enter the
everest branch of agriculture more
tn II they DO the lighter and easier de-
/ partments Some II per cent. of all
/ our agricultural laborers are women
and girls. Yet only i per cent. of our
/ florists and only y per cent. Of our
4 vine-growers ana gardeners are fe-
I males. Women figure in our agricul-
/ ture not alone as laboiers but also as
managers. Out of the total Of four
millions and more American farmers
and planters are over $4,000 te nal' ;,
Agriculture would seem to be field
| of labor TO which man could bring a
peculiar fitness, yet woman seems to
/ have invaded it as if to stay. On the
other hand, she appears to be some
what tolerative of man in softer EN-
Payments. For instance, of the mil
lion and more OF domestic servants,
some IL per cent. are males. The
same percentage Of males are engaged
in laundry work. Nine per cent. OF
cur professional nurses are men.
Twenty per cent. of the sewing
machine operators IN industrial estab
lislnients are men. OF shirt, collar
and cuff makers, % per cent. are men
and boys, aud 81 per cent. OF the work
ers in straw goods are male. OF The
makers OF hose and knitted goods s.
per cent. and of paraso
makers So per cent, are males
sixty per cent of The gloye-makers anc
forty-nine per cent OF the hair-worker:
are males. Bravely as the American
!. female has tackled trade, there ar
! still only seven sales-women in on
, stores to every twenty-four salesmel
(nor inpluHipU Ir1IpuprS
= OF the 264 occupations specified il
the census enumeration there are oni,
forty-six which are not credited viii
i, female representatives. As to the gen
E eral divisions of occupations, owe
: twenty-five per cent OF those engaged
, lin professional and personal service
:. are women. Only . little over the
/ per cent OF the persons occupied wit
:. trade and transportation together ar
n females, while 49, per cent of those dc
Il voted to manufacturing, machanca
. and mining Industries are women o
II girls. In choosing professions the Ia
8 dies prefer teaching, "by an immens
o majority aud then follow medicine
a journals u, preaching and law, in III
\ order named.
Oneis quite disappointed at bein
. able TO draw from the census repoi
i no general law Of female inclination o
i tendency to pasiicu4r pursuits. Til
u tendencies of the laties seen
- very scattering, and they show exclu
sive favor to no single occupation
One lesson, however, is prominent
viz; That the female can adapt hei
:, self to almost any occupation.