The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20

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 e1s the trend of modern industry dangerous to the character of wo- man?" "As an indistinguishable unit in the industrial hosts of today, is she more or less anti-socia1 in thought and deed than as an isolated worker under the simpler conditions or tne past?''
 These questions are asked and con sidered in a report which Miss Mary Convngton made for the federal gov ernrnent on the relation between oc- c71na+ion and criminality of women It is part of the investigation con earning women and child wage earn CTS in the United States, prepared uni uni der the direction of former Labor Commissioner Charles F. NeiH MISS Conyngton endeavors to give answer to inc questions from a study of women offenders.
 The conclusion is that the widen ing of the industrial sphere or Wo- man has not been accompanied by nroDortionate increase in criminal1ty, hI1t as far as change is perceptible, 1t is toward a dininution of legal or lenses
 Statistics were obtained from 3.229 women offenders in six dlHerene states who had been convicted or some offense An analysis Of 1,96z of the 3,229 offenders, who had been gainfu1ly employed, shows that 4152 per cent had been engaged in do- mestic or personal service; l6.61 per cent. in manufacturing and mechan1- cal pursuits 3.31 per cent. in trade and transportation, and -66 per cent in professional work Comparing these percentages with the percen- tage of women in different occupa- tional pursuits throughout the coun-
 4o4r census for 1900, it was found that a disportionate number, varying from twice to six times it's representation, come from the ranks of domestic and personal service; that manufacturing and mechanical pursuits do not fur nish their full share and that trade and transportation, including all store and office work, produce only small fraction of their proportionate share of offenders.
 Inquiry as to the earliest occupa- tions of the offenders in 627 cases indicates that no proportion Of of- lenders beginning in the higher occu- patfonal pursuits fall back into the ranks of domestic and personal ser vice, and a study of individual cases shows that those who pass from one occupational group to another re- main for the most part on the same industrial plane, thus controverting the theory that any considerable number of women beginning in the higher occupations seek to conceal their past by chasing themselves as domestic workers.
 The great bulk of women offend CTS who come repeatedly into the courts or whb offend in such a way as to show crininality are divided ac- cording to this report into three class es-moraI irnbeci1es, mentally defec- tive and low grade women who are ooju tall trained industrially and undeve1oped morally. Because domestic and low grade factory work draw the low grade workers, domestic pursuits yield a large proportion of those who violate the laws. The newer occupa- tions, it is reasoned, show far less than their proportion of women of lenders because they attract the bet ter grade of workers and because they exercise upon these women re- straining influences. At the same time that there are more tempta-