Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-01
THE WOMAN WHO WORKS.
How Fem nine Toilers In Chicago Com.
pare in Number with Males,

pare in Number with Males,
One hundred and sixty thousand wo.
men in Chicago every morning march.
ing to work in shop and mill and stor
and factory is the army of the city's
employed in petticoats. Against tn 5
army In skirts is an army of G00,OoO
men in all lines of professional and
manual work. But steadily the army
In skirts is gaining upon the army N
trousers until there is scarcely an EN-.
ployment open TO man which has not Il
woman representative somewhere in
It, competing with man in his own
once exclusive field.
Perhaps no one work of man has
Deen encroached upon by woman a,
has the business of the stenographer
The time was in the beginning VIII, N
cny men were regarded as at all com
petent for the general work of takin,
shorthand notes and transcribing them
to paper in long -hand. with the com
Ing of the machine and the spreading
Of the liberal regard which men in
public began TO assume toward women
In office work, woman took up the bus
lness of the stenographer as her own
and so steadfastly has she held to l.,
that in Chicago today there are S,113
women stenograph is to the 1,6G2 men
in the work, and these women are in.
creasing in the schools in the proper
ton Of three TO one.
Not only has the woman taken to
the typewriter and the shorthand note
book, but in the systems of accounts
she has made a place, and from the
foothold already gained she is en-
croaching steadily upon the demand
and supply for women bookkeepers
aid accountants, and wherever she
has been tried she has not been found
wanting. To take up the average Sun
day paper of to-day and look over the
want advertisements of women seek
ing places and of advertisers seeking
women for places, there is little sug.
gestiOn from the numbers to indicat,.
which portion of the paper is set aside
for the female wants and which for
the males. AS much space in the main
seems to be given to the one as to the
other More women stenographers VIII
he wanted than male; scarcely more
bookkeepers and clerks will be found
among the male wants than among
the females; in the miscellaneous
classification quite as many women
will seek positions and be sought for
positions as there will be men.
Women as statesmen are taking a
front place in the great stores of the
city. The last census for Chicago
showed more than one-third women as
statesmen compared with men. The
figures were 22,012 men, as against
1916 women filling like positions, and
even with this showing 1t is remarked
year after year that the numbers OF
women are growing steadily.
Teaching has been in woman's
sphere for ali time, and in Chicago the
proportion of women to men as teach.
ers and as professors in the schools OF
all classes Is 1900 to a paltry 1851:
and more women are binding books.
making boxes, making gloves and sew.
Ing in all the lines of seamstress work
than there are of men. At the same
time there are 20 dentists. 722 artists
ana teachers of art, 142 journalists,
2Sl literary and scientific women. 54S
physicians and surgeons, and 2,O35
musicians and teachers of music.-Chi.
cago Tribune.