The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-23
women And CITIES
FEMALES TEND TO INCREASE
uRBaN MOVEMENT.
South Carolina One Of Five States in
Which Feminine Element Outnum-
berS the Masculine.

UCxS tAS -HA<Ao<S<AAANs
Declaring that FIVE states only,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mary
land and North and South Carolina,
the females outnumter males in a
total population of 100000 peo-
ple, and that the women are strong
" drawn towards city life and away
from the country, E. Dana Durand,
director of the census, to-day issued
some interesting figures along this
line.
The excess of males in the United
States is mainly due to the extensive
immigration, a much larger proper
ton of the immigrants being males
than females. In the foretgn-born
white population there are 1892
males to 100 remales. But the ma
tive white population also has a
slight excess Of males, the ratio be-
ing 1927 to 100.
In the negre population males are
outnumbered by females In a ratio
of 9S.9 to 100. Among the Chinese
in this country males Outnumber fe-
males by more than IA to 1, and
among the japanese by about to l.
The Indians show a small excess OF
males, 1885 to 100.
In most European countries re-
males outnumber males; the number
of males to 100 females according to
recent censuses. being 93.6 IN Eng
land, 96.7 in France, 96.9 IN the Ger.
man empire, S6.4 in Switzerland, SO
il Italy, 96.7 in Austria, 9S.1 in Hun
gary, and 9S.9 in Russia.
The preponderance of males in the
aggregate population Of the United
States is most marked in the Pacific
and mountain divisions Gar Western
States) with ratios in 1910 Of, respec-
lively, 1925 and 1919 males to 100
females. The proportion OF males is
lowest in New England, this 'belng
the only geographic division in which
there is a slight excess Of females
over males. There are only Eve states
in which females outnumber males;
namely, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island
Maryland, North and South Carolina
Males increased more rapidly than
females in the United States from
1890 to 1910. The former Increased
l21.s per cent; females 20.1 per cent
Little change occurred in the sex
ratio for the native population, but
among the foreign-born white the
number Of males per 100 females in
creased from 117.4 in 1900 to 1872
| in 1910. The proportion of males in
creased in every state east Of the Mis-
sissippi River, except in Kentucky
and Tennessee, where the changes
were Insignificant. West Of the Mis-
sissippi the proportion increased in
nine states, decreased in y, and re-
NAMED unchanged in one state.
OF the aggregate urban population
Of continental United States in 1910,
21,496,lS1 were male and 21,127,-
202 female, the number Of males per
loo females being 101.7. OF the ag-
gregate rural population 25,S36,O96
were male and 23,5l2,7S7 female,
the number of males per 100 females
being 1909. In the rural population
of each division the males outnum-
ber the females, but in the urban pop
ulation of three divisionS-the New
England, South Atlantic, and East
South Centrai-the females outnum-
Der the males.
The fact that females are relative
~ more numerous in urban than in
| rural communities throughout the
| United States exists despite the fact
that foreign-born whites-a class
! which, as previously noted, males are
in a majority-are largely concen-
trated in cities. The relative excess
Of females in the larger cities is gen.
orally attributed at least in part to
the fact that the city as compared
with the country affords more oppor-
tunities for women to find employ
oent with corresponding greater
demand for female labor.
OF the so cities having over 10o,-
900 inhabitants, there are % in
which the males outnumber the fe-
males. In 80 Of the cities the pro-
portion Of males was greater in 1910
than in 1900, and in II It was less.
The number of males per 100 females
was greatest in Seattle (36.2), and
only slightly less in Portland, Oreg.,
l(34.5). Nashville shows the small
est proportion Of males, with ratio
I&9.6 to 100 females. OF the eight
cities having 100000 or more 1nhab-
;tants, Baltimore has the lowest num-
her of males per 100 females (92.G,
and Cleveland the highest (106.6),
but the ratio is almost as high, in
Chicago, where there are 1868 males
t. 100 females. New York city's
population is almost evenly divided
by sex: in Philadelphia the females
outnumber the males.