MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES
In most of the years since the Civil War, males have constituted
from sixty to seventy per cent of the total immigration. Furthermore,
 while many foreign-born women are engaged in gainful occupations
 in this country, the percentage of foreign-born males so
employed is much higher; hence the bulk of the recent immigrants
CHART 3
THE PREPONDERANCE OF MALES IN IMMIGRATION
The cross-hatched portion represents the per cent of total immigration
 wh'ch males constituted in each year: 1820-1924.
100 — ES
5! f
A - J a
2 Br. yy, 4
fond
LES
25.
Ops c ddim lt _ .
[620-29 30°35 [20-4 | 1850-59 1860°69 | 1870*79 |1880°691890-991900-09[19/0-19 |1920-Years
 Ending June 30
=Numerical data in Table 2.
who enter industry are doubtless male immigrants, particularly in
certain industries. In 1920, 89.3 per cent of foreign-born males,
but only 18.4 per cent of foreign-born females, were gainfully employed.
 Few women engage in mining, in construction, or in railway
maintenance. Of the 733,936 persons listed in the 1920 Census of
Occupations as coal mine operatives, only 1,495 were females; of
1820-1910, p. 6; for the years 1869-1910, upon computations in the same publication
based upon the recorded immigrant arrivals classified by sex; and for subsequent years,
directly upon data published by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration.

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