The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-09-06
QUE WOMEN
WORKERS
977, 1856 il Agriculture, 450
597 IN Professional, and2
095, 449 n Service. ,e
CR0WDING MEN INMANYFELDS

|, Women are crOwding men hard in
almost number1ess fields Of activity,
according to statistics ID the new vol
ume Of the Census Bureau on " Occu~
| pations.
From tables given in the volume it
| appears that from 1870 to 1900 the
number Of women engaged in specified
occupations increased from 1886, 288
to 5,3l9, 1897, Of ls9 per cent. ia the
same time the number of men in spec
flied occupations increased from 10,-
669, 1886 to %, 1853, 1886, or 122 per cent.
In these figures women who are oc-
cupied in their families in household
duties without pay are not included.
In the decade from 1890 to 1900 the
number Of men in specified occupa-
tions increased from 1881 ,090 to 49,
1853, 1886, or about rs per cent. In the
same period the women in specified oc-
equations increased from 3,914,571 to
5,319, 1897, or SO per cent.
Nearly q million women in the Uni
ted States are engaged in agricultural
pursuits, OF, exactly, 977,336. In 1870
there were 396,968 The number Of
men similarly engaged has increased
in the same time from 1851, 593 to-
9,4o4, 420.
Professional service occupies the at
tention of 43O, 597 women, The total
number of men in professional service
is given as S27, 941. In 1870, the earliest
year with which the volume makes
comparisons, the number Of women in
professional service was 81, BOB.
The larger number of professional
women are teachers and professors in
schools and colleges, the total being
327,614. The total number of men
thus employed is but 1850.
1t does not appear that women have
driven men out Of the field Of law to
any great extent. The census gives
the total number Of women lawyers as
1,O10, and the total number of men
lawyers as lib, $50.
Nevertheless, the increase in the
number Of women in the legal profess
sion has been relatively great. In
1870 the census showed women law
yers in 1880, rs; and in 1890, 208.
Women have taken more kindly to
medicine and surgery than to the law,
the number of women physicians and
surgeons being 1887, against 527 in
1870. There are 124,6l5 men physi-
clans and surgeons.
Scarcely a field can be found in
which women have not entered. How
ever, none Of them as yet have become
soldiers, sailors or marines in the Uni
ted States service, and none are tele-
graph or telephone linemen1 With
these exceptions, women have been
found engaged in every occupation
mentioned in the long list given in
the report.
In domestic and personal service,
they number 2,095, 449; in trade and
transportation, 500, BAT and in manu-
featuring and mechanical pursuits,
1912, 1858.
Fourteen women in the United
States are veterinary surgeons, ll3
are woodchoppers, 100 are architects,
1878 are clergymen, 807 are dentists
and 2,193 are journalists. There are
81 women sections, 293 bankers, 1853
boatmen and sailors. 10 hosUlers,
auctioneers, and 904 employed as
draymen and hackmen.
In the building trades many women
are found employed as carpenters,
masons, painters, and the like. Two
women OF the United States work at
roofing, and 126 are plumbers. They
are also numerous In fishing and
mining, and in work in iron and
steel and their products.