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Rh The data in this report does not permit of any deductions regarding the extent of variation between the wages of men and of women, as the great majority of the occupations connected with the telephone industry are performed by either men or women. In a few instances, however, both sexes are employed at the same occupation, and while it is impossible in any instance to state whether the work performed by both sexes was similar in quality and in quantity, the presumption is that it was approximately the same. In view of this presumption, the table on page 106 is most significant.

A study of this table shows that in every occupation under discussion the wages of women are much lower than those of men. Of the clerks, the most numerous group analyzed, two-thirds of the females receive wages between $30 to $50 per month, while the wages of four-fifths of the men in the same group are over $50 per month. Similar contrasts appear in all of the occupations.

The third point for which this study affords material is the distribution of wages within an industry. Few statistics are available to show the numbers of employees in a given industry who are receiving specified amounts of wages, but the be-