The table illustrates the number of employees and factories involved in silk production in England and Wales from 1851 to 1901. Overall, there was an increase in the number of factories, ____ to a corresponding decrease in the workforce. The ____ of the workforce consisted of women, and their numbers ____ at a slower rate compared to male workers. In 1851, a total of 272 factories were operational, employing 130,750 workers. Among them, 76,786 were females, while the remaining 53,964 were males. Moving forward to 1861, the number of factories had more than ____ to 761. This increase in factories ____ in a reduction in the workforce, with male employees ____ by approximately 20,000 and female employees falling by only 10,000. ____ the following decades, the number of factories fluctuated but remained within the range of 600 to 700. However, the trend of a declining silk workforce continued. By the end of the period in question, the total number of silk workers ____ dropped to 38,942, including 13,375 male employees and 25,567 female employees. Notably, the composition of the labor force remained ____ with the initial years, with males ____ only one-third of the total number of silk workers.

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