Photograph by C. Park Pressey
The 1910 Census showed over three hundred and thirty thousand women employed as farm laborers. This number did not include wives or daughters of farm-owners
The foregoing facts concern occupations which were once associated entirely with men. If we enter the ranks of more womanly work we shall find:
| Dressmakers | 447,760 |
| Milliners | 122,070 |
| Sewers and sewing-machine operators | 231,106 |
| Telephone operators | 88,262 |
| Nurses | 187,420 |
| Clerks and saleswomen in stores | 362,081 |
| Stenographers and typists | 263,315 |
| Bookkeepers, cashiers, and accountants | 187,155 |
| Cooks | 333,436 |
| Laundresses (not in laundries) | 520,004 |
| Teachers | 478,027 |
These are of course merely a few among the four hundred and fifty kinds of work in which women are found. Any survey of women's work comes close to a general survey of industry. We shall find that in some occupations the proportion of men is much larger than that of women. In others women have made rapid strides. The accompanying diagram shows that in professional service, in domestic and personal service, and in clerical occupations women are found in largest numbers. In domestic and personal service the women outnumber the men more than two to one. In professional service there are four women to five men, a large proportion of the women being teachers. In the clerical occupations we have one woman to each two men, in manufacturing one woman to six men, in agriculture one woman to seven men, and in trade one to eight. The occupations for women have been changed somewhat by the new industrial conditions forced upon us by the war, but it is very probable that in a few years the industrial world will return to its normal status before the war for both men and women.
Proportions of men and women in the United States engaged in special occupations
