Agriculture 4,585,749 2,745,840 Clothing and cleaning 883,184 713,021 Commercial lines 545,177 299,829 Textile industry 528,235 427,961 Restaurants and cafés 339,555 261,450 Articles of food and luxury 248,962 140,333 Metal works 73,039 36,210 Stone and pottery 72,270 39,555 Paper industry 67,322 39,222 Wood and carving industry 48,028 30,346 The following are the trades in which more women than men are employed in Germany: Women. Men. Agriculture 4,217,132 2,737,768 Textile industry 466,210 390,312 Clothing trades 403,879 303,264 Cleaning trades 85,684 58,035 Restaurants and cafés 266,930 139,002 Domestic service 279,208 36,791 Nursing 129,197 78,520 These figures clearly show us the prevailing state of affairs in Germany. Although the number of persons gainfully employed has increased more rapidly than the population, the growth of female labor still exceeds this increase. The employment of women is rapidly growing in all lines of industry. While the male laboring population is relatively stationary, the female laboring population shows a relative and absolute growth. In fact the increase in female labor constitutes the chief portion of the general increase of persons gainfully employed in the entire population. The number of female members of families supported by men rank from 70.81 per cent. in 1895 to 63.90 per cent. in 1907. Woman has become such a powerful factor in industry that the Philistine saying, the woman’s place is in the home, seems utterly void and ridiculous. In England the following numbers of persons were industrially employed: For every 100 persons gainfully employed Total Male Female Male Fem. 1871 11,593,466 8,270,186 3,323,280 -- -- 1881 11,187,564 7,783,646 3,403,918 69.59 30.41 1891 12,751,995 8,883,254 4,016,230 68.09 31.91 1901 14,328,727 10,156,976 4,171,751 70.09 29.91