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 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.