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Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers 1870–1930: Appendix

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Introduction
  10. 2. The Office before the Civil War
  11. 3. Office Work after the Civil War
  12. 4. Women Enter the Office
  13. 5. The Ideological Debate
  14. 6. Scientific Management in the Office
  15. 7. The Private Secretary
  16. 8. Conclusion
  17. Appendix
  18. Notes
  19. Index

Appendix

Table 1. Clerical Workers in the United States, by Sex, 1870–1930

SOURCE: Alba M. Edwards, Comparative Occupation Statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940. Part of the Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943), Tables 9 and 10.

NOTES

* Census figures estimated, and 372 added because of undercount in thirteen Southern states. For an explanation of the undercount, see Edwards, Comparative Occupation Statistics, Appendix A, note 3.

† All figures estimated. For information about how estimates were arrived at see Edwards, Comparative Occupation Statistics, Appendix A, notes 32, 42, 43 and 44.

‡ Census figures estimated, and 2 added because of undercount in thirteen Southern states.

§ Census figures estimated, and 488 added because of undercount in thirteen Southern states.

|| Census figures estimated, and 6 added because of undercount in thirteen Southern states.

# 70 added because of undercount in thirteen Southern states.

Table 2. High School and College Graduates in the United States, 1870–1970.*

SOURCE: Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, Biennial Survey of Education. Cited in Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1952 (p. 121) and 1972 (p. 127).

NOTE: *Table 2 compares the numbers of male and female high school and college graduates, 1870–1970. The data cover graduates of both public and private institutions.

Table 3. Fanners, Business Owners and Managers, and Professionals, 1870–1930

SOURCE: Alba M. Edwards, Comparative Occupation Statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940. Part of the Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943). Tables 9 and 10, pp. 113–129.

Table 4. Women in Selected Occupations, 1870–1930

SOURCE: Alba M. Edwards, Comparative Occupational Statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940; Part of the Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943).

* Includes agents, collectors, and credit men; bookkeepers, cashiers, and accountants; clerks (except clerks in stores); messenger, errand and office boys and girls; stenographers and typists.

† Includes college presidents and professors for 1870–1900, although given the data for subsequent years, it is unlikely that they ever amounted to more than 2% of the total.

‡ Includes clergymen for 1870–1900.

Table 5. Civil Service Examinations, 1 January to 1 July 1919, by Sex

SOURCE: Bertha M. Nienburg, Women in the Government Service, U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, Bulletin no. 8 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920), p. 11.

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