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EXECUTIVE.
Executive Office	28
State Department	92	17
Treasury Department	3,234	2,313
War Department[1]	2,411	300
Navy Department[2]	2,992	85
Postoffice Department	812	237
Interior Department	4,810	2,862
Department of Justice	191	21
Department of Agriculture	650	332
Government Printing Office	2,623	1,068
Department of Labor	74	10
Fish Commission	55	12
Interstate Commerce Commission	133
Civil Service Commission	55	6
Industrial Commission	10	7
Smithsonian Institution	320	39
Bureau of American Republics	13	9
Local Postoffices in District	606	22
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	19,109	7,430
JUDICIAL.
Supreme Court of the United States	12
Court of Claims	25	2
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	37	2
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SUMMARY.
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	20,109	7,496

 

Whether the number of women is increasing or decreasing is a disputed question. The Civil Service alone enables them to hold their places or to secure new ones against the tremendous pressure for the offices which is brought upon the appointing powers by the men who form the voting constituency of the country. Chiefs of the Divisions rarely call for a woman on the Civil Service list of eligibles.

Few women fill the highly salaried positions. One woman receives $2,500 as Portuguese translator; one, working in the U. S. Land Office at Lander, Wyoming, receives the same. One secured a $2,250 position in the Federal Postoffice Department but was soon reduced to an $1,800 place and her own given to

1. Not including 71 officers of the U. S. Army on duty at the War Department
2. Not including 37 officers U. S. Navy and 4 officers U. S. Marine Corps on duty at Navy Department.