The arrival of women in the office

Now, the women are everywhere in the office. And not only in the office...

..."Ye-es, unless," said the partner in the firm audaciously, "sometimes we marry our employers... "

"This feminisation of office work happened incredibly fast. Until the late 19th Century there were no women in offices at all. In 1870, there were barely a thousand of them. By 1911 there were 125,000 and by 1961 there were 1.8 million, in 2001 there were 2.5 million female clerks".

"In the late 19th Century it was inconceivable to have men working alongside typewriter girls, for fear of damage to their morals"

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And now, who damage "our morals"? Who damage their morals?

The arrival of women in the office

The typewriter is almost obsolete in the modern office. But it played a crucial role in women's arrival in the workplace, explains Lucy Kellaway. In 1887, Rudyard Kipling met one of the new breed of

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