WOMEN'S OCCUPATIONS

Shannon News, 15 November 1927, Page 4

WOMEN'S OCCUPATIONS

STATISTICS FROM CANADA

ADVANCE IN PROFESSIONS.

VANCOUVER, October 19. Sixty years ago, the teaching profession In Canada was largely in the hands of men; now, especially in the public school, teaching is almost exclusively done by women, who number 49,975, as compared with 11.042 men teachers.

There is one woman mining en gineer in six civil engineers 21 electrical engineers. There are women painters, boilermakers engine builders and carpenters. Women barbers and hairdressers number 587boot and shoe repairers 34, loggers, 7, trappers 51. One is a grave-digger, another an auctioneer.

Over 100,000 are .employed in the textile industry, and 22,000 in dressrmaking and millinery. Department stores absorb 35,000, and banks 8000. There are 152 women doctors in Canada, and 11 women clergy. -Canada now has 16,000 women farmers, compared with the 650,000 male tillers of the soil. Domestic service and nursing, attract 100,000 and there are 11,000 nuns,' occupied mainly in nursing and teaching.