Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — Women in Prussia. [ARTICLE]

Women in Prussia.

The last census of the German Empire establishes the fact that the preponderance of the female over the male sex is increasing in Prussia. While the male population numbered 13,893,688 the female population was 14,420,145—an excess of 526,457 females on a total of 28,313,833 persons. Since the census of 1880 the excess of females has increased 77,078, and since 1867 the increase has been no less than 297,000, or 129.46 per cent. T.he fact is remarkable, and naturally it is attracting much attention in Germany. It is recognized that this growing preponderance of the female sex can only partially be attributed to emigration, though it is well known that far more men than women leave Prussia for other countries. Out of every 100 persons who were enumerated in the census of Prussia in 1867 49.52 were males and 50.48 females, but now the proportion is 49.07 and 50.93 per cent., respectively—the excess of females having increased from 0.96 to 1.86 per cent, in eighteen years. Of all the provinces of Prussia only Bhineland and Schleswig-Holstein sh&w a small preponderance of the male sex, while in East Prussia, Posen, and Berlin the greatest preponderance of females is to be found. In Berlin alone, with its population of roughly 1,300,000, there are 52,419 more females than males.