==========+===================================+=================== | | Persons gainfully | | employed in | Gainfully employed | percentage of | | population +-----------------------------------+------------------- (C) (Y) | Male Female Both | Male Female Both ----------+-----------------------------------+------------------- Ger 1907 | 18,599,236 9,429,881 28,092,117 | 61.1 30.4 45.5 Aus 1900 | 8,257,294 5,850,158 14,107,452 | 64.2 44.0 53.9 Hun 1900 | 6,162,298 2,668,697 8,830,995 | 64.3 27.6 45.9 Rus 1897 | 25,995,237 5,276,112 31,271,349 | 41.6 8.4 24.9 Ita 1901 | 10,998,462 5,284,064 16,272,526 | 68.0 32.4 50.1 Swi 1900 | 1,057,187 498,760 1,556,577 | 65.0 29.5 46.9 Fra 1901 | 12,910,565 6,804,510 19,715,075 | 68.2 34.8 51.3 Bel 1900 | 2,123,072 948,229 3,071,301 | 63.8 28.1 45.9 Net 1899 | 1,497,159 433,548 1,930,707 | 59.4 16.8 37.8 Den 1901 | 752,559 353,980 1,106,539 | 63.1 28.2 45.2 Swe 1900 | 1,422,979 551,021 1,974,000 | 56.8 21.0 38.4 Nor 1900 | 599,057 277,613 876,670 | 56.1 24.0 39.5 EnW 1901 | 10,156,976 4,171,751 14,328,727 | 64.6 24.8 44.1 Sco 1901 | 1,391,188 591,624 1,982,812 | 64.0 25.8 44.3 Ire 1901 | 1,413,943 549,874 1,963,817 | 64.3 24.3 44.0 GBI 1901 | 12,962,107 5,313,249 18,275,356 | 64.5 24.9 44.1 USA 1900 | 23,956,115 5,329,807 29,285,922 | 61.3 14.3 38.4 ----------+-----------------------------------+------------------- [126] These figures include 91,219 persons of the army and navy who were absent from the country while the census was taken. In other trades, such as millinery, manufacture of artificial flowers, etc.,[127] they reduce their own wages and lengthen their own work day by taking home extra work. They frequently do not even notice that thereby they become their own competitors and do not earn more in a sixteen hour day than they might in a well regulated ten-hour day.