The percentage of women workers in Russia is much smaller among the Jews than among the non-Jews, according to a statistical article which appears in the “Emess”.
The paper explains this on the ground that the Jewish women have remained in their native villages where there are few industrial opportunities, while the Jewish men leave their villages to seek employment in industrial centers.
The largest number of Jewish workers are to be found in the printing, tailoring, furniture and paper making trades. This, says the “Emess”, is due to the fact that under the Czarist regime the majority of other trades were closed to Jews.
At the same time the paper reveals that the percentage of qualified workers is much higher among Jews than among non-Jews. Only 14 percent of the Jewish workers are classified as non-qualified, while the percentage of highly qualified or qualified workers is set at 38 percent.
A complete statistical report of Jews in industry will be completed, it is believed, when the reports of the census of 1932 are made available.
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