Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — An Army of Over 2,000,000 Women Wage Earners in America. [ARTICLE]

An Army of Over 2,000,000 Women Wage Earners in America.

The following interesting statistics, concerning women wage earners, is furnished in the Woman's Journal: ,! Ameiioa had in 1890, 2,700,000 bread-winning women and girls working outside of their own homes. There were 110 lawyers, 165 ministers, 320 authors, 588 journalists, 2,001 artists, 2,13 G architects, 2,106 stock raisers and ranchers, 5,135 government clerks, 2,438 ' physicians and surgeons, 13,182 professional musicians, 56,800 farmers and planters, 21,071 clerks and bookkeepers, 14,465 heads of commercial bouses, 155,000 public school teachers (based on the ensus of 1830).”