Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-01-06
MORE MEN THAN WOMEN
In THE UNITED STATES


They Live u ,nger, Too
Strange SIS .Istics about
Chinese = School
Figures.
A study in the proportion of sexes il
the United. States was published b.
the bureau of census as bulletin IA.
The discussion and analysis appear
ing in bulletin IA were written by Pro
fessionor w. F. Wilcox, of Cornell
University, the tables themselves, de-
rived from the main population re
ports of the twelfth census. were pre-
pared also under Professor Wilcox
supervision.
Some of the conclusions reached ART
of much scientific and practical i'm
portance, and may thus be summariz
ed: ~
The whole population of continental
United States was first counted with
distinction of sex in 1920. During the
seventy years from $50 to 1900 the alb.
Solute excess of males was greater at
each census than at any preceding CEN
sus with one exception, that of 1870,
when the excess of males was less than
in 1850 and 1860.
This reduction of the excess of males
between 1860 and 1870 by about 10000
was doubtless due to the deaths in the
Civil war and the diminished immi-
grafton during the decade.
The greatest relative excess of males
was in 1890, when in each 10000 peo
pie there were 242 more males than fe
males.
By 1900 this excess had decreased to
PIG in 1000, less than the relative ex.
cess in 1890 and 1860, but greater than
that at each other census.
In continental United States there
are 1 .63S, ,321 more males than females,
or about two in each 100 people.
Probably in the population of the
world as whole, and certainly in that
half of it which has been counted with
distinction of sex, there are several
million more males than females.
In continental United States. how
greater than the average for all coun-
tries.
Europe has an excess of females; ev-
cry other continent, SO far as known,
has an excess of males.
The divisions of continental United
States with the smallest proportion of
males are the District of Columbia
47.4 per cent? Massachusetts, (46.7
per cent? and Rhode Island (491 per
cent?; those with the largest are
Wyoming 1929 per cent? and Mon
tana (6l.6 per cent.
AS a rule sparsely settled regions
have an excess of males and densely
settled regions an excess of females.
Between 1890 and 1900 the diverg
ence among the several States in this
respect decreased and the proportion
of males and of females in different
sections became more nearly equal.
In 1880 about one fourth and in 1900
less than one sixth of the American
counties had an excess of females.
CITIES HAVE MORE WOMEN.
American cities as a.rule have more
females than males. In the 1861 cities,
each having in 1900 at least $500 in
habitants, there were POI, 1863 more fe-
| males than males, and this notwith-
standing the manv Western cities
which contained more males than fe-
| males and the enormous number of
| foreign born in the country tive-nlnth
of them male and large proportion of
them living in the cities.
The tendency of American cities to
develop a population having majority
of females had increased since 1890,
when, in the I.490 cities, each having
at least $500 Inhabitants, there were
| ,929 more males than females.
While the excess of 6,929 males in
American cities in 1890 became an ex-
cess of 2l0 959 females in American
cities in 1860, the excess OF 1918, ,559
males in country districts in 1890 be.
came an excess of l,S40, $50 males in
| 1900
| Or, expressing the facts in ratios, of
each 1000 Inhabitants of such cities in
| 1890, 500 were males and IN 1900, 497
were males; of each 1000 Inhabitants
living outside these cities in 1890. 519
were males and in 1900, $40 were males.
Tne difference thus in the number OF
males over of females between an aver
age thousand of city and Of country
population in 1890 was 19 and in 1900
%.
This conclusion is not materially y
modified when a more accurate meth
cd is employed and comparison made
between the figures in 1890 and 1900 fol
the same list of cities, namely, al
which had at least $500 inhabitants al
each date.
A marked and increasing dissOcia
ition of the sexes between city and
country like that in the United States
has been noted also in the leading
countries of Western Europe.
On the other hand, there IS large
excess of males in the principal cities
of Russia and India, and in HOngkona
and Manila.
This excess of males in the cities OF
Western Europe and Eastern United
States is probably due mainly to the
greater opportunity for women to fine
employment in those cities and to theil
migration cityward in consequence.
4 But even among children under
years of age, slight difference appear
lbetween cities having at least 500
nhahitants and the rest of the cOu n Dtrv