ies. Males. Females.
Silk industry 11,771 51,352
Cotton industry 18,320 23,846
Linen and half-linen industry 5,553 5,232
Embroidery 15,724 21,000

Altogether, there were then in the textile industries, 103,452 women
engaged, besides 52,838 men; and the "Bund" expressly declares that
there is hardly an occupation in Switzerland in which women are not
found.

In Germany, according to the census of occupations of 1882, of the
7,340,789 persons engaged in gainful occupations, 1,506,743 were women;
or 20.6 per cent. The proportions were, among others, these:--

Per
Industries. Males. Females. Cent.

Commercial occupations 536,221 181,286 25.2
Service and restaurants 172,841 141,407 45.0
Messengers and day laborers 9,212 3,265 26.2
Spinning 69,272 100,459 60.0
Weaving 336,400 155,396 32.0
Embroidery 42,819 31,010 42.0
Lace and crochet work 5,676 30,204 84.0
Lace manufacture 13,526 17,478 56.4
Bookbinding and paste-board
box-making 31,312 10,409 25.0
Paper manufacture 37,685 20,847 35.6
Tobacco working 64,477 48,919 43.1
Clothes-making, etc. 279,978 440,870 61.2

To these must be added 2,248,909 women engaged in agriculture, 1,282,400
female servants, also school teachers, artists, Government
office-holders, etc.

According to the census of occupations for 1875-1882, the following was
the result. There were employed in industrial occupations in the German
Empire:--

Total Total Persons Employed.
Persons Employed. In the Small Trades. In the Large Trades.
Year. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
1875 5,463,856 1,116,095 3,453,357 705,874 2,010,499 410,221
1882 5,815,039 1,506,743 3,487,073 989,422 2,327,966 514,321
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Increase
in 1882 351,183 390,648 33,716 283,548 317,966 107,100
or 6.4 or 35 or 1 or 40.2 or 15.8 or 26.1
per cent. pe