The table below describes the number of employees and factories in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows the correlation between the

number

of

employees

, both male and female, and the

number

of

factories

in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901.

Overall

, in fifty years the

number

of

employees

decreased eightfold,

whereas

the

number

of

factories

almost tripled. In 1851,

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ratio between male and female

employees

was 3 to 2, with 287 and 190

thousand

employees

respectively.

Nevertheless

, the situation completely changed ten years later, when the

number

of men decreased more than by half,

while

women's

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group lost only 30

thousand

. Another big leap happened in 1871

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when the

number

of workers decreased by 50 and 100

thousand

in the male and female groups

accordingly

. The pattern is the same for the rest time frames, leaving only around 30

thousand

people in both genders equally

at the end

.

However

, the situation is not the same for the

number

of

factories

. A big bounce happened between 1861 and 1871, resulting in three times more

factories

.

While

the next decade shows a

further

increase, adding a hundred more

factories

, the next 10 years after illustrate that the

number

before and

after

this

leap is almost the same. At the start of the next century, England and Wales had exactly six hundred plants.