DIFFERENCES OF WAGES PAID TO MEN AND WOMEN 637 ? It may be observed that the average weekly wage of these Massachusetts women workers, viz. $6'09, is a little below the ascertained average of 1,183 Boston women workers in 1887, viz. $293'44 in a year, with 36? days lost time; and it coincidea almost exactly with the ascertained average of 13,822 women workers in twenty-two cities of the United States in that year, ,viz. $272'45, for a year, with 36 days lost time. x Average Weekly Earnings by Trade. INDUSTRIES. Gm?&T B??. ?ts and Shes ..... 7'22 ? 2'79 j B?cks ......... 5'45 [ 2'51 c??g? ....... ?.? I s.w I s?? 5? Cloth?g ........ 7.? i 4.10 j Cot?n ?s ...... 7'45 6'79 8'? ? 5'08 . ? and Ju? ?... 5'? F? Prepamtio? .... 8'? 11'81 ? 6'10 G?ss .......... 9'85 s.? I s.? I ?.? ? ?.? Ha? .......... 7'76 I 8'55? ......... ] I 12-? ? 5'12 He? ?s ...... 8'28 9'? 15'58 ? 6'? ?t?g and Pub?s?g . 8'? / Teethe ?t?g and Dyeing 6'? W?e? ........ 6'? . ?.? I s'? I s.s?l ?.?o ........ i I The 'averages' for Great Britain were prepared from tw(?. different bases, both of which are given. Their divergence, though not in itself important, serves to emphasize the general untrustworthiness of statistical averages of wages. But this corn- parstire table has been selected as being apparently more trust- worthy than some other American statistics, and its main re- sults coincide closely with other data. Without relying on its ? Fourth Annual Report of Federal Commissioner of Labor, 1888.' Both these calculations exclude ' professional' occupations.
