The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-05-07
WOMEN ENGAGED IN GAINFUL
OCCUPATIONS.

\ summary OF the statistics for tho
United States regarding the marital
condition OF women .is years OF aga
and owe engaged in gainfui occupa-
lions la the United States at the ate
OF the thirteenth census. together with
comparative statistics for preceding
censuses. has been issued BY Director
Sam L. Rogers. OF the bureau of tho
census, department OF commerce.
In the statistics presented. two very
important facts stand IA s~trikinsly
and indisputabiy. The first IL the
very marked increase In the proportion
which the married constituted OF all
women is years Of age and over en-
gagged In gainful opera,lons-from
about one-seyenth (i4.s per cent in
1890 to more than one-fourth (2s.4 per
cent? in 1910. The second Ia the very
marked incease in the proportion OF
all women-espectaiiy In tho proper
ton OF ali married women-is years
OF age and over engaged In gainful
occupations. The proportion OF mar
ried women gainfuily occupied In
creased from less than o-ne-twentieth
CAS- per cent? in 1890 to more han
one-tenth do.7 per cent? in 1910.
In 1880 the married formed ls.3
per cent OF all women 1s years OF ags
n over engaged In gainfui occupa-
tions In 1900 this proportion had
increased 20 1873 per cent; and then.
fro.,. :. 20 to 1910. It jumped TO the
sery !igh ara entirely Unprecedented
proportion Of 1914 per cent. While
there were important variations. tho
great increase was not confined q any
n occupation or group OF occupa-
tons, nor TO any one state or group OF
states. In every occupation examined
the married formed a larger proper
ton OF an women 10 years of g ard
over Ia 1910 Than In 1900. Ind in each
geographic division aud In each state
except Arizona the married formed a
larger proportion OF all s~ainfuily occu-
pied women is "a OF age and over
in 1910 In the south and In Arizona
SOS per cen In south Carolina, ass
per cent ia Georgia. 4G.7 per sent IN
Florida. a. per cent In Alabama. 81
per cent ia Mississippi f5.6 per cent In
Arkansas. f0.7 per cent in Louisiana,
and i0.7 per cont In Arizona. In con-
srast. the proportion was only las per
cent in connect.cut. 1874 per cent in
Pennsylvania, ls.1 per cent In WILSON,
sin. li9 per cen; In Minnesota, and
1871 per cent IN Iowa.
The very high proportion which the
married formed Of all gainfuIly oecu-
pied women 10 years OF age and over
in the south doubtless Is eplaixned
largely by the very large proportion
which negroes formed OF the %Eainfuily
occupied women in that section; hut.
a. already stated. the percentage In
crease nom 1900 10 1910 In the pro-
portion the married formed Of the TO-
TAI WIS by no means confined 10 the
south nor 10 the negroes.
The statistics show that IN 1889
only ~ per cent Of all married women
&c years ~ age and over were engaged
81 gainful occupations, In 1900 this
proportion had increased only 20 SO
per rent. ana oniy Tss.tT7 married
women nc years % = and over weie
painfully occupied; but by 1910 the
proportion o. married women 10 years
OF age and oser painfully occupied
had Jumped 20 io1 per cent. and the
number TO i.soo.e2s Here. also the
marked Increase from 1899 10 lgi'