Workers in Manufacturing, by sex

Data for 1841	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	150	20
Textiles & clothing	3,719	3,069
Wood & paper	177	17
Chemicals	28	1
Low tech	532	19
High tech.	357	3
Other	395	163

Data for 1861	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	67	11
Textiles & clothing	989	1,188
Wood & paper	77	8
Chemicals	31	2
Low tech	264	2
High tech.	123	2
Other	57	11

Data for 1881	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	198	78
Textiles & clothing	1,301	2,217
Wood & paper	254	69
Chemicals	126	10
Low tech	589	13
High tech.	451	7
Other	758	150

Data for 1911	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	522	576
Textiles & clothing	7,564	11,967
Wood & paper	412	201
Chemicals	1,192	170
Low tech	2,213	80
High tech.	2,811	91
Other	1,023	139

Data for 1931	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	1,553	816
Textiles & clothing	2,635	3,668
Wood & paper	709	208
Chemicals	1,235	449
Low tech	2,548	507
High tech.	9,976	1,873
Other	1,565	503

Data for 1951	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	3,127	1,562
Textiles & clothing	1,017	1,782
Wood & paper	996	285
Chemicals	4,913	1,135
Low tech	7,596	1,370
High tech.	29,815	6,221
Other	1,613	663

Data for 1971	Sex
2011 Classification of Manufacturing	Male	Female
Food & drink	4,769	1,860
Textiles & clothing	2,188	1,875
Wood & paper	1,512	289
Chemicals	7,095	1,134
Low tech	5,881	824
High tech.	17,105	2,851
Other	736	156

Date:	Source:
1841	1841 Census of Great Britain, Occupations, Table [1] , 'Occupation Abstract'
1861	1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 17 , 'Occupations of Males aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1861	1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 18 , 'Occupations of Females aged 20 Years and upwards in Districts'
1881 - 1991	Census of Population
1971	1971 Census of England and Wales, Economic activity County Leaflets, Table 3 , 'Industry and status by area of workplace and sex', for 'County, county boroughs, urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, conurbation centres'

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