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OCCUPATIONS. 



Here the marked tendency to the increase in female workers is clearly 

 shown. Tliat this should be more apparent in the United States than in 

 South Carolina is doubtless due to the fact, which will presently appear, 

 that the proportion of females among the workers of the United States is 

 considerably less than in South Carolina, and in so far as this is owing to 

 natural conditions the percentage of increase in the female workers of 

 the United States above given, shows the force of the moral tendency in 

 opposition to natural conditions. The rate of increase of the classes en- 

 gaged in professional and personal services, and in trade and transporta- 

 tion is markedly greater than in the other occupations, and this rate of 

 increase is very much greater for South Carolina than it is for the coun- 

 try at large. By a curious coincidence the increase of the persons en- 

 gaged in manufactures and mining in South Carolina agrees precisely 

 with the rate of natural increase, that is, thirty-two per cent. A more 

 complete view on these points may be obtained by considering the 



SEX AND NATIVITY 



of the working population as given in the census of 1880, and from data 

 there given is compiled the following : 



Table shoiving the j^ercentage of males and females, native and foreign born 

 engaged in all occupations, and in each leading class of occupations in the 

 United States and in South Carolina. 



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