| Trade | |
| Metal | 195,000 |
| Chemical | 35,000 |
| Textile | 64,000 |
| Clothing | 43,000 |
| Food, Drink and Tobacco | 60,000 |
| Paper and Printing | 21,000 |
| Wood, China and Earthenware, Leather | 23,000 |
| Other | 62,000 |
| Government Establishments | 197,000 |
| Total | 700,000 |
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF FEMALES DIRECTLY
REPLACING MALES IN VARIOUS BRANCHES
OF COMMERCE IN APRIL, 1918.
(Compiled from the Report of the Board of Trade
on the Employment of Women in April, 1918.)
| Wholesale and Retail Drapers, Haberdashers, Clothiers, | 41,000 |
| Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Bakers, Confectioners | 92,000 |
| Wholesale and Retail Stationers and Booksellers | 16,000 |
| Wholesale and Retail Butchers, Fishmongers, Dairymen | 30,000 |
| Retail Chemists | 12,000 |
| Retail Boot and Shoe Dealers | 8,000 |
| Total (including some not specified above) | 352,000 |
Appendix G
ESTIMATE BY THE BRITISH WAR CABINET COMMITTEE ON
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY ON AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS
OF WOMEN IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AT
THE END OF THE WAR.
Earnings under 25s. weekly:
Dressmakers, milliners (first five years), laundry workers, pottery workers (most grades), knife girls and kitchen hands in refreshment houses.
Earning between 25s. and 30s. weekly:
Cutlery workers, soap and candle makers (unskilled), corner tenters (cotton), woolen and worsted weavers, backwashers (Scotch Tweed), dyers and cleaners, biscuit makers, cigarette makers, pottery workers (certain grades), waitresses in refreshment depots.