New Britain herald., 1928-03-29
2 MILLION
 AT WORK
Wives Employed Outside
 of Homes in us.

Washington, Mar. :9.-"From our observation in the manufacturing and industrial pursuits" says Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Wo- mems bureau of the Department oi Labor. about 95 per cent of mar ried women work because they have to-"
 About 100000 married American women are gainfully occupied. Near ly 100000 unmarried are also working.
 An analysis of the distribution of married women ill the labor mar ket. as shown by the census of 1920. has been made available to this writer. The figures are out of date. but increases haves not been large and this is the first time they have been published, Here is the division as shown by the census:
 Domestic and personal service tincuding laundries) G35,000, agriculture fmostly cotton pick ing) 37o,00O, manufacturing 4G5,- 900. trade 155,o0o, clerical 13o.- 900. professional 125.ooo. trans portation 25.o0o. mining 1900 and public service 7500.
 Only 3 per cent of women clerical workers are married. but their per centaEes among women in other lines are 70 in agriculture. 46 in mining. 35 in public service, 29 in domestic service. F in professtonal c5 in manufacturing and 24 in trade. They are e3 per cent of work ing women.
 Just about one-third of the working married women are en- gagged in domestic and personal service. The per cent distribution is agriculture 19, manufacturing ct, trade s. clerical [. profes- sional 6.5. and mining one-tenth of l per cent.
 Seventy-five thousand of them were from Is to l9 years old cs5.oo0 from 20 to 24. 1.l5o,oo (nearly GO per cenD % to A and 420.000 are 45 and over. Nearly two-thirds of them were white women.
 The census showed 225,000 mar ried women laoorers on home farms 93.0o0 working out on farms, 76A coal mine operatives, 1c9,000 cloth ing workers. 10000 shoe workers 13.oo0 millinery workers. 17,oo0 telephone operators (who came un. der the head of "transportationD 105,000 clerks and salesw omen in stores. 35,o00 retail dealers, 5000 state and federal officials including postmistresses. 62,0o0 teachers. 1s.o0o musicians and music teachers, 11.ooo trained nurses. 5000 physicians, osteo- paths and headers, c2S,oo0 servants. 31,000 waitresses. 1sS.- 900 private laundresses, 26,000 laundry operatives, c7,o0o mid wives and untrained nurses, 37.- 900 housekeepers and stewards, 42.0o0 boarding and lodging housekeepers. 41,ooo bookkeepers. cashiers and accountants, and ST. 900 stenographers and typists. Less than 20 per cent of store clerks and saleswomen are mar ried, 10 per cent of the telephone operators. 10 per cent of teachers, Nf noir musicians, 23 per cent Of servants, 27 per cent of waitresses, 7.5 per cent of trained nurses. 36 per cent of physicians and healsrs, Ii per cent of bookkeepers and cashiers and per cent of stenographers and typists.
 From all indications, more wo- men are employed than ever, cs- | pecially married women." says Miss Anderson. Debt, illness and buying | of homes forces them into it. Elm.
 ployment of married women is no,
 50 permanent, of course. New ave nues of manufacturing have beer
 opened to them with development O. the electrical industries and simpli.
 fication of machinery.
 "The women miners shown b,
 the census figures are a myster, 1 to us. We don't know where the,
 are. But we know there are {
 few women street car conductors
 in Baltimore and Detroit, and wo men taxi drivers elsewhere. Prejudice still exists agains {, married women jobholders, bu
 most of 1t is among other women
 Thus many women working clain 1 to be unmarried. But nearly al
 of them work because they must"