The table compares the numbers of female and male factory workers in Germany over a 50-year period, from 1851 to 1901.
Overall, while the number of factories increased significantly over the period given, the opposite trend was observed in the quantity of male and female factory workers.
Looking at the number of factories, it started off at 225 which almost tripled in the following two decades, accounting for overall 622 factories in 1871. In the next decade, this indicator rose by around 100 before falling back to the similar figure (625). By the end of the period, the number of factories had declined slightly to 600.
Regarding the number of factory workers, both figures for males and females decreased over time, starting off at 287,000 for the former and 190,000 for the latter. Over the next decade, while the number of female workers experienced a slight decline of 30,000, that of male workers nearly halved to 131,780. By 1871, the figure for women had decreased significantly by 100,000. It then continued to decline steadily by 10,000 per decade, accounting for 30,000 workers at the end of the period. Similarly, the figure for men witnessed a gradual yet inconsistent reduction, reaching 31,000 by 1901, a slightly higher number than that of women. As for the total number, the figures for male and female workers combined made up 477,100. This number decreased over time, reaching 61,000 workers by the end of the period, which was almost eight times as low as that in 1851.