The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1914-07-09
FARMERS INCLUDE
THIRD OF WORKERS

washington. July 9.-At the thir-
teenth census G910) there were 49,,
756223 persons 10 years of age and
over engaged in gainful occupations
in the United States. including Alas
ka, Hawaii Porto Rico. and the mil
itary and naval stations abroad. The
gainful workers thus formed Ais per
cent Of the total population (93.402,-
15D enumerated at that census.
These figures are contained in a re-
port on occupations which has just
been published by Director William J.
Harris, of the bureau of the census.
department of commerce.
100000 Men at Work.
In continental United States alone
the gainful workers numbered 49,
1886, which was 41.5 per cent Of
the total population (91,972,266) and
533 per cent Of the population 10
years of age and over G1,5S0, ,270). In
the male population the gainful work.
ers numbered 3O,O91, ,564, which was
636 per cent of all males and S1.3 of
the males 10 years of age and over.
In the female population the gain
full workers numbered 8,O75,772, which
was 1871 Ier cent Of all females and
PA per cent of the females 10 years
of age and over. In other words, of
all persons 10 years of age and over,
III 1917, more IIdu every OLH0T ono
had a gainful occupation; of the
males, over four out of five were
gainful workers, and of the females.
almost one out of four was a gainful
worker
Number of Women Nearly Doubles.
In the male population 10 years Of
age and over, the proportion gainfully
occupied increased gradually from
| 1877 per cent in 1880 to S13 per cent
x1,sI
| full workers in the female population
10 years of age and over increased
from 14.7 to 23.4 per cent.
Practically one-third (33.2 per cent?
| Of all gainful workers in the United
States in 1910 were engaged in agri-
culture, forestry, and animal hus-
bandry, and considerable more than
one fourth (27.9 per cent? were en-
gagged in manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries. Thus Over three-fifths
of all gainful workers were occupied
in these two general divisions of oc-
cupations.
The remaining two -fifths Of the
workers were distributed among the
| other seven large classes of occupa-
itons, namely, extraction of miner
ais, transportation, trade. public
service, professional service, domes-
tic and personal service. and clerical
occupations.
Women's Sphere Is Home.
| Domestic and personal service was
the principal field of employment for
female workers in 1910, 31.3 per cent
of them being engaged in this branch
Of occupations, as compared with 24.4
per cent in agriculture, forestry, and
animal husbandry, and 22.5 per cent
in manufacturing and mechanical in
| dustries.
In 1910 there were employed in ag-
riculture, forestry, and animal hus-
bandry 10,851,702 males and 1,807.501
| females; in the extraction of miner
ais, 963,730 males and 1.094 females;
in manufacturing and mechanical in
dustries, S,837,901 males and 1920, $50
females; in transportation, 1851, ,07E
males and 106,596 females; in trade
3,146,582 males and 468,0S8 females;
in public service, 445,733 males and
1858 females; in professional serv-
ice, 929,684 males and 1885 females:
| 1,241,328 males and 2,530,846 females:
and in clerical occupations, 1,143,82s
males and 593,224 females.
| Many Women in Professions.
These figures show that in 1910 do.
mestic and personal service was the
only general division of occupations
in which the women outnumbered the
men, there being in this general divi-
sion more than two women employed
to each man. In professional service
there We're four women employed fol
every five men, large proportion OF
| the women being teachers.
In clerical occupations one third oi
the persons were women; in manu-.
featuring and mechanical industrie.
women constituted one in six; in ag.
riculture, forestry and animal hus.
bandry. one in seven; and in trad,
one in eight Of the gainful workers
Women constituted only 4 per cent o.
the persons engaged in transporta
tion, per cent of those engaged ii
public service, and one e-tenth of / Pc
cent Of those engaged in the extrac
4 ton sd uainerala &