The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-01
OVER 100000 WOMEN
EARN THEIR LIVING
Over Twenty Per Cent Of the Fe-
male Residents of Virginia Are
Bread-Winners.
HOW THEY ARE CLASSIFIED
Found in Various callings-onc-
Third of Richmond's Women
Self-Supporting.
HOW THEY ARE CLASSIFIED
ny WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.

ny WALTER EDWARD HAlkNlS~
WASHINGTON, D. c.. August 31.-[
The number of women In Virginia over
sixteen years of age at tho taking of
the last census was t54.43E. OF this
number ia, 43s. or 20.6 per cent. earnedi
their daily bread. or this army OF fe-
male breadwinners, 1859 were born In
this country. of native parents' y,sss
women In Virginia are OF native birth, |
with one or both parents foreign born.
and OF this number l,5a2 earn their
bread
| The number of women In Virginia
| between sixteen and twenty years OF
| age at the last census was 1o1,Se3, and
| OF this number no less than PATS sup
/ ported themselves; f3,4o4 were between
| twenty-one and twenty-four years OF
| age. and 1853 of this number earned
| their support. The number between
| the ages of twenty-five and thirty-fourl
/ was 12S352. of which 24,232 were bread
| winners. There were e5.S35 women in
/ the State between the ages OF thirty
/, Ave and forty-four. and 1921 OF this
| number worked. Between the ages of
4 forty-fiye and f1fty-four there were
j14.1s0 breadwinners; 9.017 between
fifty-hve and sixty -four; 5.719 aged
1 sixty-fve and over.
The number of negro, Indian and
/ Monaghan women in Virginia between
the ages of sixteen and forty-four earn
! ing their living in 1900 Is given as
.ll72.27e. OF course, practically the en-
4 tire number were negresses.
I The number OF women in Richmond
j over sixteen years of age in lsoo was
/ $1,000 Between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-four years. 1855. OF 30
/ per cent. supported themselves. Ihe
number of negro women in the city is
given at 1882, the total number OF
A nepresses in the city, 1906.
4 The number of white women in
Richmond of native white parentage Is
given at 1853, OF which number 3-294
Il earn their own support, The white
women with one or both foreign pa,
rents was 1853. and OF this number 4S9
;. were workers. Foreign-born white
women numbered 1,244 and OF Iris
!. number 21s supported themselves.
Women as Farm Hands.
! Az the last census. and all this is
! ltust made public in figures issued by
|. 1.-THE Census Bureau to-day, there were
| I S56 female farm laborers in Virginia.
lOf this number 1,400 were native
whites; 5 were Of foreign parentage,
: hut born In Virginia; 8 foreign-born
!, whites, and 6.442 We're negroes, In
: dams or Mongolians,
There were 1864 farmers, planters
s and oyerseers In Virginia In 1900 who
were women; S,25S of native parentage;
$ "a with one or both foreign parentage,
n and 90 fore!gn-b born white women, The
{, number of negroes etc., was S,I2S.
r Only 81 Virginia women We're ac-
g tresses and professional showwomen
Il when the last census was taken, all
: white; 80 Of them OF native parentase
y and 10 Of foreign born percentage ana
o were foreign born.
5. Under the head of artists and teach.
: ers of art, SIS Is the number given. OF
s (which rs were of native parentase,
e OF one or both foreign parents, for
elgn born and 2 negroes.
Literary and scientific women mum
~ bered IS, of which number 81 We're OF
"a native white parentage, 4 with one
h lparent foreign born2 foreign born ant
"a 4 -'negro Indian or Mongollan."
- THE number of female musicians ant
: 4 teachers Of music was AGA. of whom
! JIs37S were of native white parcntage, 3!
Il one or both parents foreign born. !:
j. foreign born and 35 negroes.
!, The number of female government
), officials in the State in 1900 was 1S6
~ OF whom 100 were of native white pa
,-Erentage. had one or both foreig'
at born parents. 2 We're foreign born am
,eI o We're Indians, negroes or Mongollans
+. Entering Medicine.
st Medicine and surgery had attracted
32 Virginia women when the last cen
Is sus was taken. OF this number eXactl.
o. half were of native white parentage
IN 2 had one or both foreign parents,
III were foreign born, and 8 We're negro.
Teachers and professors In college
o. from the female. sex numbered 6.76
OF In Virginia when the census enurnera
4. tor last made his rounds; OF the nun
en her, 5340 We're OF native white parent
stiiage;als2 had one or both foreign horl
er parents; y 0 were foreign horn whites
us and l 177 were negroes, Indians an
re Mongolians. sB 81
he 1, Yrhere were Is female BARRIERS an
ng Ihairdressers in the State In 1900. an
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