The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-01
MARRIED WOMEN
AMONG WORKERS
Uncle Sans Figures Show
Startling Increase in Ten
Year Period.
ESPECIALLY LARGE IN SOUTH
Statistics Show That More Than one.
Tenth Of Wives Of Country Were
Engaged In eaInfuI oecu-
patlons In 1910.

Engaged In oaInfuI occu-
patlons In 1910.
In summary Of the statistics re-
gardlng the marital condition Of wom-
en- sixteen years of age and over en-
gagged In gainful occupations in the
| United States at the date of the thir-
teenth census in 1910, issued by the
director of the census, two important
facts stand out strikingly. The first is
the very marked increase in the pro-
portion which the married constituted
of all women sixteen years of age and
over engaged In gainful occupations -
from about one-seventh (14.3 per cent?
In 1890 TO more than one-fOurth (25.4
per cent? in 1910. The second is the
very marked increase in the proper
! tion Of all wOmen-especially In the
proportion of all married women-slx-
teen years of age and over engaged in
gainful occupations. The proportion
of married women gainfully occupied
increased from the less than one
twentieth (4.6 per cent? in 1890 to
more than one-tenth (10.7 per cent? in
1910.
In 1890 the married formed 14.3 per
cent of all women sixteen years of
age and over engaged in gainful occu-
patiOns. In 1900 this proportion had
increased to 15.9 per cent; and then,
from 1900 to 1910, 1t jumped to the
very high and entirely unprecedented
proportion of 25.4 per cent. While
there were important variations, the
great increase was not confined to any
one occupation or group of occupa-
tiOns, nor to any one state or group of
states. In every occupation examined
the married formed a larger proper
tion of all women sixteen years of age
and over In 1910 than in 1900. And in
each geographic division and In each
state except Arizona the married
formed a larger proportion of all gain
fully occupied women sixteen years of
age and over in 1910 than 1900.
Proportions High In South.
The proportions were exceptionally
high in 1910 in the South and in Ari-
zona-50.S per cent in South Carolina,
1853 per cent in Georgia, 46.7 per cent
in Florida, 47.4 per cent in Alabama,
54.2 per cent in Mississippi, 45.6 per
cent in Arkansas, 40.7 per cent in
Louisiana, and 40.7 per cent in Ari-
Tn tho Tnrnnnrffnu
only 1873 per cent in Connecticut, 15.1
per cent in Pennsylvania, 1871 per cent
in Wisconsin, 11.9 per cent in Mime
sofa, and 1871 per cent in Iowa. The
very high proportion which the mar
ried formed of all gainfully occupied
women sixteen years of age and over
in the South doubtless is explained
largely by the very large proportion
which negroes formed of the gainfully
occupied women in that section; but,
as already stated, the percentage in
crease from 1900 to 1910 in the pro-
portion the married formed of the total
was by no means confined to the South
nor to the negroes.
Ever more startling and more sig
nificant than the great increase in the
proportion which the married form
of all women sixteen years of age and
over engaged in gainful occupations is
the marked increase in the proportion
of all married women-engaged in
gainful occupations.
Nearly Two Million Employed.
The statistics show that in 1890 only
4.6 per cent of all married women six
teen years of age and over were en-
gagged in gainful occupations. In 1900
this proportion had increased only to
SO per cent, and only T69,477 married
women sixteen years of age and over
were gainfully occupied; but by 1910
the proportion of married women six
teen years Of age and over gain
fully occupied had jumped to
1917 per cent, and the number to l.
890626. Here, also, the marked in
crease from 1900 to 1910 was not con-
fined to any state nor to any group of
states. There was large increase in
each geographic division, and in each
state except Arizona.
The increase from 1900 to 1910 was
most striking in the South; and in
certain Southern states the proportion
Of the married women sixteen years of
age and over engaged in gainful occu-
pations reached especially high proper
tions in 1910-22.4 per cent in North
Carolina, 41.9 per cent in South Caro-
lima, 2S.9 per cent in Georgia, 21.2 per
cent in Florida, 31.1 per cent in Ala
bama, 41.9 per cent in Mississippi, 20.3
per cent in Arkansas, and % per cent
IN Louisiana. The states in which the
of married women gainfully
in 1910 was small are all in
he North. The proportion was be-
.ween and 5 per cent in Indiana,
Minnesota, Iowa, North Da-
zota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and
Kansas.