The table on page 212 shows to what extent female labor has grown among various civilized nations, both in relation to the other sex and in relation to the entire population.[128] Our table shows that the number of women employed in gainful occupations constitutes a considerable percentage of the entire population. The percentage is largest in Austria, France and Italy. This may be partly due to the manner of census-taking, as not only those female persons are counted, whose principal occupation is a gainful employment, but also those who perform incidental work for wages. The percentage is lowest in the United States. It is also important to compare the growth of the laboring population with former periods. Let us begin with Germany: ==========+========================+====================== Years | | Persons gainfully in which | Entire Population | employed census +------------------------+---------------------- was taken | Male Female | Male Female ----------+------------------------+---------------------- 1882 | 22,150,749 23,071,364 | 13,415,415 5,541,517 1895 | 25,409,161 26,361,123 | 15,531,841 6,578,350 1907 | 30,461,100 31,159,429 | 18,599,236 9,492,881 ----------+------------------------+---------------------- ==========+========================+=================== | Persons gainfully | Years | employed in percentage | Of 100 persons in which | of population | gainfully employed census +------------------------+------------------- was taken | Male Female | Male Female ----------+------------------------+------------------- 1882 | 60.57 24.02 | 71.24 28.76 1895 | 61.13 24.96 | 70.25 29.75 1907 | 61.06 30.37 | 66.21 33.79 ----------+------------------------+-------------------