ILLUSTRATIONS

An Electric Welder.

Frontispiece

Women Operators on Ohio Milling Machines.
Woman Operator on Plain Milling Machine

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Women Operatives on Splining Machines.

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Women Operatives on Punch Presses.

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Women Operatives on Vertical Milling Machines.... 39

Scope of Replacement in New York State.

Local Variations.

Processes on which Women Replaced Men...

Industries and Processes.

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Method of Computing Wages.

Comparison of Wages of Women Replacing Men

with Cost of Subsistence..

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Reasons for Dismissing Women Replacing Men...... 32

Proportion of Women Replacing Men Retained....... 33

Causes of Failure to Make Good by Women

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Appendix

I Excerpts from Letters of Employers of Women

who have Replaced Men.

STATISTICAL TABLES

Table I Showing Amount of Replacement in New
York State By Geographical Section.

Table II Showing Amount of Wages Paid to
Women Receiving Equal Pay.

Table III Showing Relation of Wages of Women
Replacing Men to Men's Wages on the Same
Work

Table IV Showing Wages of Women Producing
More Than Men.

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Table V Showing Wages of Women Who Produce
Less Than Men.

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Table VI Showing Reasons Given By 16 Plants
For Discontinuing All Women Replacing Men
During the War

Table VII Showing Reasons Given by 35 Plants
for Discontinuing Part of Women Replacing
Men During the War.

Table VIII Showing Reasons Given by 51 Plants for Discontinuing All or Part of Women Replacing Men During the War...

Table IX Showing the Relative

Amount of

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Replacement in Three Sections of New York State before and after the Armistice. Table X Showing Total Working Force, Number of Replacements during War and Number and Per cent of Women Retained after Armistice in 117 Plants and in 27 Localities of New York State Table XI Showing by $1.00 Wage Group Modal Weekly Earnings of Women Replacing Men during the War with Number of Women and Number of Plants in each Wage Group. ...........63

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Table XII Showing Modal Earnings of Women
Replacing Men, by $2.00 Wage Groups, with
Number of Plants and Number of Women in
Each Group.

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Table XIII Showing Earnings of Women Replacing Men during War by $2.00 Wage Group, with Number of Plants and Number of Women in Each Group..... Table XIV Showing Difference in Wages between Men and Women on the Same Work and for Same Period of Time, by $1.00 Wage Groups, before and after the Armistice with Per Cent of Women Retained in Each Group. 66 Table XV Cumulative-Showing Difference in Earnings of Men and Women on Same Job for Same Period of Time.

Table XVI Showing Permanence of Replacement after the Armistice..

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