Women Who Work.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 177, 6 November 1886, Page 8

Women Who Work.

Statistics prove that the proportion 'of women engaged in labour outside the household is less in the United States than in Europe. At the came time, in no other country have so many women succeeded in qualifying themselves for employment in the better and more skilled branches of industrial occupation than in the case of America It is computed that an army ot 2,647,000 ptrong represents the number who work, in Yankee parlance, " without the shelter," in other words, outside home and domestic conditions Out of thia number 595,630 are employed in agriculture, and chiefly conflict of coloured women in the Southern States : 632,000 women and girls work in the manufactories, ana of this total nearly one-half are employed in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. There were 52,000 female tailors in the United States, and no fewer than 282,000 milliners, &c. Public laundries are to be found in almost every American town. There^ are in all 122,000 of these useful establishments, and oufc of this number all but 16,000 are kept by women. The invasion by American ladies of the learned professions is also advancing by leaps and bounds. In 1870, for example, there were 525 lady surgeons and physicians; now, however, there are 2,474, whilst the 65 "clergywomen" have increased in the same period to 165. Sixteen years ago the lady lawyers of the United States might have said with Wordsworth's 'Little Maid," " V'e are seven :" now, however, they can proudly answer, "We are seventy-five,