the various departments at
Washington, D.C. The figures are based upon the Official Register of
the United States, July 1, 1901, volume 1. Since that date there has
been a great many hundreds of new appointees of both sexes in all the
respective departments and bureaus below enumerated, and the accurate
figures down to the present time will show an increase accordingly:

-----------------------------------+--------+--------+
| Men. | Women. |
-----------------------------------+--------+--------+
Executive Office (the President's) | 28 | |
Department of State | 92 | 17 |
Treasury Department | 3,234 | 2,313 |
War Department | 2,411 | 300 |
Navy Department | 2,292 | 85 |
Post-Office Department | 812 | 237 |
Department of Interior | 4,810 | 2,862 |
Department of Justice | 191 | 21 |
Department of Agriculture | 650 | 382 |
Government Printing Office | 2,623 | 1,068 |
Department of Labor | 74 | 10 |
United States Commission of Fish | | |
and Fisheries | 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 |
-----------------------------------+--------+--------+

The first woman employed in the Government service was appointed by
General Spinner, of the Treasury Department, about 1864.

On July 1, 1901, the clerical force in the Executive Departments in
Washington was approximately a force of 27,605 employees of both sexes.
Out of this number there were 7,496 females. The time, at this ratio of
increase of the respective sexes, when the gentler sex is to overcome
and pass the men, is merely a matter of arithmetic to those who wish to
ascertain this interesting data. The above table shows that the women
have between one-fourth and one-third of the appointments in Washington,
D.C.

Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery, the chairman of the committee on woman's
work, read her first report of the work of that committee at the meeting
of the board held Tuesday, April 28, 1903, and a copy was transmitted to
the National Commission.