| Year. | Males. | Females. |
| 1892 | 79,218 | 35,598 |
| 1893 | 84,470 | 38,557 |
| —————— | —————— | |
| Increase | 5,252 | 2,959 |
| or 6.6 | or 8.3 | |
| per cent. | per cent. |
Of the working-women over 16 years of age, 28.27 were married. In the large ammunition factory at Spandau, there were, in 1893, 3,000 women out of a total of 3,700 employes.
As in England, in Germany also, female labor is paid worse than male. According to the report of the Leipsic Chamber of Commerce for the year 1888, the weekly wage for equal hours were:—
Industries. | Males. Marks. | Females. Marks. |
| Lace manufacture | 20 —35 | 7 —15 |
| Cloth glove manufacture | 12 —30 | 6 —25 |
| Linen and jute weaving | 12 —27 | 5 —10 |
| Wool-carding | 15 —27 | 7.20—10.20 |
| Sugar refinery | 10.50—31 | 7.50—10 |
| Leather and leather goods | 12 —28 | 7 —18 |
| Chemicals | 8.50—25 | 7.50—10 |
| Rubber fabrics | 9 —28 | 6 —17 |
| One factory of paper lanterns | 16 —22 | 7.50—10 |
In an investigation of the wages earned by the factory hands of Mannheim in 1893, Dr. Woerishoffer divided the weekly earnings into three classes: one, the lowest, in which the wages reached 15 marks; one from 15 to 24; and the last and highest in which wages exceeded 24 marks. According to this subdivision, wages in Mannheim presented the following picture:—
| Low. | Medium. | High. | |
| Both sexes | 29.8 per cent. | 49.8 per cent. | 20.4 per cent. |
| Males | 20.9 per cent. | 56.2 per cent. | 22.9 per cent. |
| Females | 99.2 per cent. | 0.7 per cent. | 0.1 per cent. |
The working-women earned mostly veritable starvation wages. They received per week:—
Marks. | Percentage of Females. |
| Under 5 | 4.62 |
| 5— 6 | 5.47 |
| 6— 8 | 43.96 |
| 8—10 | 27.45 |
| 10—12 | 12.38 |
| 12—15 | 5.38 |
| Over 15 | 0.74 |
In the Thüringer Wald district, in 1891, the workingmen engaged in the slate works received 2.10 marks a day; the women 0.70. In the spinning establishments, the men received 2 marks, the women from 0.90 to 1 mark.