Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-11-16
The Woman Who Works.


marching to work in shop and mill and
store and factory is the army OF the
city's employed in petticoats. Against
this army in skirts is an army of 6OO.-
900 men in all lines of professional
and manual work. But steadily the
army in skirts is gaining upon the
army in trousers, until there is scarce
ly an employment open to man which
has not Il woman representative some
where in it, competing with man in
his own once exclusive field.
Perhaps no one work of man has
been encroached upon by woman as
has the business of the stenographer.
The time was in the beginning when
only men We're regarded as at all com
petent for the general work of taking
shorthand notes and transcribing them
to paper in longhand. 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 bust
ness of the stenographer as her own,
and so steadfastly has she held to it
that in Chicago to-day there are S,113
women stenographers to 1862 men in
the work, and these women are in
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 and
accountants, and wherever she has
been tried she has not been found
wanting. To take up the average
Sunday paper of to-day and look over
the want advertisements of women
seeking places and of advertisers seek
ing women for places, there is little
suggestion from the numbers to indi-
cate 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 will be 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
Of men.
Women as statesmen are taking n
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 fig
ures were 22.O12 men, as against 1916
women filling like positions, and even
with this showing it is remarked year
after year that the numbers of women
are growing steadily.
Teaching has been in woman's
sphere for all 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 paltry 1891 /;
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 70 dentists, 100 artists
and teachers of art, 142 journalists,
2S1 literary and scientific women. 54S
physicians and surgeons, and 2,O35 mu-
sicians and teachers Of music.-Chi-
cagO Tribune.
An English Girps Criticism.
A pretty English girl visiting this
country makes this criticism Of our
shops, according to the New York
Evening Telegram
zone thing have noticed more par
ticularly than anything else. outside
of the rush you are in all the time. Is
the rudeness Of your women clerks in
the shops. 1t quite took my breath
away at first, and | thought it was
because we We're English that they