---------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | M. 1881. F. | M. 1891. F. | ---------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ Earthenware | 52,200 19,700| 64,300 23,800| Fuel, Gas, Chemicals | 44,000 4,000| 66,400 6,300| Fur, Leather, Glue | 49,400 13,300| 59,100 18,200| Wood Furniture, Carriages, | | | etc. | 221,600 18,400| 253,600 23,300| Paper, Floorcloth, | | | Waterproof, etc. | 24,600 23,200| 28,600 34,200 | Textiles, Dyeing | 396,400 566,200| 430,500 585,600| Dress | 344,700 609,300| 353,800 681,300| Food, Drink, Smoking | 152,300 28,900| 173,100 50,200| Watches, Instruments, | | | Toys | 41,700 3,400| 44,600 5,500| Printing, Bookbinding, | | | etc. | 75,000 13,100| 102,100 19,100| ---------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ TOTAL |1,401,900 1,299,500|1,576,100 1,447,500| ---------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ From this table we perceive that while the number of males engaged in these manufactures has increased by 53 per cent. during the half century 1841 to 1891, the number of females has increased by 221 per cent. This movement, which must be regarded partly as a displacement of male by female labour, partly as an absorption of new manufactures by female labour, proceeded with great rapidity from the beginning of the period up to 1881. The check apparent in the last decennium, in which the number of males employed seems to have increased faster than that of the females, does not, however, indicate a reversal or even a suspension of the industrial movement. It is attributable to an abnormal change in a single great industry--the cotton trade; excluding this, the employment of females in each group of manufactures has grown faster than that of males. [Illustration: TEXTILE WORKERS.] If we confine our survey to adults (excluding males and females below fifteen) the rapid and regular advance of female employment as compared with male is still more striking. [Illustration: DRESS WORKERS.]