Abstract
AbstractThis article investigates whether in Cape Town and South Africa, clerical work went from being a male occupation to one dominated by women a few decades later, as it did in other places in the early twentieth century. It explores women's involvement in clerical and office employment from 1900 to 1960. In the USA and Canada, clerical work remained a ‘white' occupation until the 1960s and was linked to notions of middle‐class respectability. This work expects this trend to be more pronounced in South Africa and finds that while clerical work feminised amongst white workers, it defeminised for other races.
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