Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-19
One Woman in Five a
Bread Winner.
The Many Lines in Which
They Are Prominent.
i25 Occupations With Over i000
American Women.

I-rit,.d States is a bread winner. AMI
~, number IL increasing. This is the
r,port lust made by the census bu-
r.afl based upon information derived
from the last decennial census. For
. nation that boasts Of its pamprrcd
women. considering nothing too pre-
c;ulIs to be lavishcd upon them, this
is rather a surprising showing. ON
the other hand, the Independence ana
the peculiar training of American
women drive thcm very often to take
up wage-earning pursuits when such
action would not occur to an English
WOMAN in similar circumstances.
The figures of the government re-
port are interesting and suggestive.
As might be expected, by far tn"
largest number of women WaScearn"rS
are. those in domestic service. There
are more than a million of these. al
though. as every family in America
knows. there ought to be at least z
million more to meet the demand. Al
most all the serving class are immi-
grants. daughters of Immigrants or
negroes. No free-bOrn American Will
descend to cook or sweep or dust pr
wash for another if she can get any
other kind of a job and such is tn"
magnitude and diversity Of enterprises
in this country and the disposition 10
give the gentle sex her way that she
usually can.
There are almost a half million
farm laborcrs among the women of
the United States and vet we so sci
dom see anything Of that sort that we
ar" a&tpniShrd and reused to indigna-
tinn by the sight of women working
in the fiol,l; abroad. Most Of tne
women reported under this class We're
uf the negro race. Next in number
are the drcsSmakers, 33S, 144 of them,
hard as they ar" to find, and supple
m,ntcd by rapidly num-
her Of men tainrs devoted to the art
d; making Women's clothes OF teach
trs ana laundrcsSrs there is almost an
equal number. Although American
Wnn"n are perhaps more original and
more daring in entering til" fields Of
rcnjIn"rativ" labor than the women of
any other country. yet tn" five leading
ncCrI.ationH-thosc of domestic ser
vice. dres%!nak"r, laundress, house
kccpcr and ScamStreSS-arr the ones
that may he termed iistinctiveiy fem
iuinr pursuits. III this work was
formerly done almost exclusively by
women in their own homes rs part of
INA Juti.. ~ mothers ana wives Nov
.,Ithnuob Hos. .ccunations have baan
differentiated +, . cnn.i1nr,bJc ev+on,
,b,. ,r lin for ,b. ,,,,.t ,,ar+ in rho
,.,,l. ,.r ,r,,,,,n Much l.,, b,,, .a,l
....,.i,li,. la. ..,.,,,,, L,,,.,;.b,,,,, miami
~. ,fr.c, az in. ,,.ror,1o,,nc. or
,,.,,,.,, t,.,,.b,r. IN ,,,, ,,,Ili. ,cbo,i,
..,J IT,. innu.pro ia t.ndip.. :, mako
,,.. ,rr.,,ir,t. ,rh. cc,..,,s shows
~, ,r,,,lcr,,c. III v,r,nr IN .ba
,.,c,,i,,, profession ~ ~ nn H.. IL
crease
Lately in New York women teach
crs have. made an All but effective as
rlu!t upon the salary system. de-
tr:.,ufinr fo,. themselves the. same nav
as men teachers receive for the same
u,,,!l The bill WIS passed by the
legislature. but vetoed by the mayor
Tho Wptl"n teachers showed them
selves skiICul LOBBYISTS during the ari-
t,,iun lint v,rn lieci,Iirod Ia. .ho
t., r .,,o,,i,, ~. ,,o,r1.,.ti,,,r ,I,,i
~ =
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cf t,vti,. mil, n,.r,tiv,. tha ,,y,, caves
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i,;. 49,, ,
~, 1.,,art,,.,+. ~ +ho .i,;a,. ,r.,.a
, vnmru wnrn rrr,rtn1 u tran,tjri,o,,,
ana recently 4 woman claimed ma. III,
h3l IN disruis. IL cnurs,, ,ct.J ~ !,
Street c,r conductor IL MI, y,rl c;,v
~ several works rive vn,,an var.
reported employed as pilots. ten AZ
haGs:a~.n, thirtY-onc as brakemrn.
seven rs conductors, forty five as
engineers and iirrmrn tWcnty-Siy is
yWitrhmrn y1r,lmrn and hoen,.n
trriv-,br,n -, c,rr;ooo ,nd b,o1.
driven. s;x e,,;, o,,.,',,.r. .,,.', ~
r,,r.rs ,,1 s1,,ar ~ T.. h,,ai..,,;.,,,
-.nx ~ r,,cbi,,i.t ;ah. ,rit
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.u1 INA Irrr,r. iii, Nn
h.r,, rh,,, ,o, ~
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and thirtv-t1,,o o,n,,,,-i,, r,.., 49,
College bred women are Frequently
di@c"v"rin ing new fields Of labor or in