Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-02-17
WOMEN IN THE FACTORIES.
STATISTICS FROM THE
LABOR BUREAU.
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THE ELEVENTH REPORT.
Comparisons of the Increase of Female
and Male Employees in Ten Years
The Wages PAID to the Sexes
Compliments Paid to Wo-
men Workers Their
Good Qualities.


annual report of the bureau of labor,
just transmitted to Congress by Com
missioner Wright, was prepared, in
obedience to joint resolution of Con-
gress directing an investigation rela-
tive to the employment of men, women
and children, and is confined strictly
to comparison of the extent of en-
ployment and wages of 1866, or
present period with the conditions
in what is termed former period
ante-dating the present period by at
least ten years.
The agents of the department Sc
cured information from LOST estab-
ishments of various kinds, located in
thirty different states and employing
14S,367 persons-a number large
enough to insure that the data col
lected were thoroughly representative.
The complete data sought for, how
ever. were obtained from 931 establish
ments employing $3.50 persons in the
former and los, ,64S in the present PEI
riod. OF this number in the first pc
riod 20, 40 were males of Is years of
age or over. as against 43, 1876 in the
second, I,115 males under IS years of
age. as against 7.540 in the second
27.163 females, Is years of age or over
and 6.743 females under IS wears of
age, as against 40, 1872 and 12,751. re-
spectively, in the present period The
male employees 13 years of age or over
increased in the present period over
the former period 63.1 per cent, while
female employees of the same age
period increased 66.3 per cent. Male
employees under Is years of age in
creased 500 per cent, while female
employees under IS years of age in
creased S9.1 per cent.
The proportion of females 10 years
of age and over employed in all occu-
pations in the United States rose in it's
relation to the whole number employed
from IA 6S per cent in 1870 to 1722 per
cent in 1890, while males decreased in
proportion from So a2 per cent in 1870
to S2.TS per cent in 1890. For the pres
| ent period, out of an aggregate of
| 79,9S7 women, 20, ,921, or SS.7 per cent
were single, 6,755. or S.5 per cent mar
ried, 2,4l1 or .. per cent divorced and
| PA, or 80 of l per cent unknown. OF
the 3,914,57 females 10 years of
age or over engaged in gainful pur-
| suits in the United States in 1890,
| 69.S4 per cent were single or their
onjugal condition unknown, 13. 10
| per cent married, 10 per cent wild
| owed and 80 per cent divorced Of 1872
| instances in which men and wome n
work at the same occupation and per-
form their work with the same degree
| of efficiency, men receive greater nav
| in 595 or 76. l per cent of the instances.
and women receiving greater pay in
| 129 or 16.9 per cent while in IS in
stances or IA per cent the men receive
| so. per cent greater pay than the
| women in the 595 instances in which
they are given greater pay, while the
women receive but 10.3 per cent great
| er pay in the 129 instances in which
they are paid higher wages.
| Out of the 22S instances in which
men and children persons under 1S
years of age) work at the same occu-
| patton with like degree of efficiency.
men receive greater pay in 1872, or 79.S
| per cent of the instances, and childre n
receive greater pay in "a or 1915 per
cent, while in % instances or o. per
! cent they receive the same pay for the
same work performed with the same
degree of efficiency The men receive
81 per cent greater pay than the
children in the 1872 instances in which
they are paid more, while the children
| receive ouI o.o per cenG greater pay IN
the "a instances in which they are
paid the higher wages.
| The main reason for the EMPLOYMENT
of women and girls is that they are
better adapted for the work at which
they are employed. Other reasons
| given are that they are more reliable,
more easily controlled, cheaper. more
temperate, more easily procurable,
neater, more rapid, more Industrious
less liable to strike and learn morl
| rapidly