The Dallas Daily Herald

The Ninth Census-Our Women.

It is commonly supposed that there are more females than males in a given population, and such is the case in most if not all, the European countries; but it will doubtless please the spinster sort here to learn that in the United States we have more men than women. The men number 19,493,565 and the women 19,064,806 showing an excess of men of 429,759 - a difference produced by the foreign immigration which brings more men than women to our shores. Of these men, 7,579,478 are between the ages of 18 and 45, or fit to bear arms, while 8,425,941 are 21 and upwards, or entitled to vote. The natives fit to bear arms are 5,695,084, the foreign, 1,884,394; the natives 21 years of age and upward, are 6,896,623, and the foreign, 1,529,318. All our people are pretty well occupied in gainful labors but not so numerously as they should be while there is an enormous discrepancy between the occupied men and women, which it seems to us ought not to be. Of the 28,000,000 over 10 years of age; 12,000,000 only are reported at work; but more than 10,000,000 of these are men and only 2,000,000 women. Clearly, there ought to be a larger provision for the industry of the women, who are able, willing and need work, but who are crowded out of appropriate branches of industry by lazy and lubberly fellows who might be doing much better for themselves and their country in other places. There are some employments to which women are not at all adapted physically, such as those of hunter, trapper; miner, sailor, mechanic and many others which men have rightly all to themselves ; there are others, such as teaching, domestic service and boarding-house keeping, which they divide quite equally with men; but there are others again, like clerkships in offices and shops, and the light professional and mechanical occupations, in which they do not have a fair share. Of the 14,000 posts under government, for example, they get but 600: while of the 250,000 clerkships in stores, in telegraph, insurance and other offices, they get less than a beggarly 7,000; though there are uses to which they are pre-eminently fitted. These tables, by the way, giving the special occupation of the sexes in detail, are among the most valuable in the volume.

New York Post.