124 Rents, Wages, and Profits in Agriculture 



most gainful occupations or branches of 

 employment have been restricted to men. 

 Even in agriculture, certain operations have 

 generally been confined to men. 



In the last census (1901), out of some 

 12,000 women still employed in agriculture 

 in England and Wales, only 5 women 

 are returned as in charge of horses, and 

 one of them is a girl under fifteen years 

 of age. Only 12 are returned as shepherds, 

 and only i as a woodman. Of farm 

 bailiffs or foremen, there are 39 women 

 as against nearly 27,000 men. And history 

 shows that in the past, in agriculture, the 

 women were pressed into the least gainful 

 branches of the service. 



The greater the misery of the people so 

 much the more are the wages of women 

 depressed, simply because there are more 

 seeking for employment. D'Avenel accounts 

 for the relative fall in the wages of women 



