The small wages of the men and the number of women engaged in gainful occupations (See Chapter IV) show that the women must help earn the daily bread for the family.
The most decisive set of facts is the growth in the number of whites and Negroes in gainful occupations in Southern cities.
This includes children and some other family members not in gainful occupations.
According to the most recent estimates there are approximately fifty million persons, male and female, over ten years of age, engaged in gainful occupations in this country.
There are in this country more than two million children between the ages of ten and fifteen, engaged in gainful occupations.
Children have been found in industrial pursuits since colonial times, but of recent years there is a growing movement to restrict or prohibit the employment of children in gainful occupations.
It is also important to state how the population employed in gainful occupations is divided among independent workers, employes and laborers, and what proportion of each of these is furnished by either sex.
Our table shows that the number of women employed in gainful occupations constitutes a considerable percentage of the entire population.
The generality of white women in New York, wives of laboring men, infrequently engage in gainful occupations.
Roughly, of each 10 men employed in gainful occupations, five, and of each 10 working women, three, were born abroad.
In only one of the 10 largest cities in the country--Pittsburgh--is the proportion of women and girls at work smaller as compared with the total number of persons in gainful occupations than in Cleveland.
In the first place, we must note the tendency toward rapid increase of the numbers of women listed by the census as in "gainful occupations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gainful occupations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
