Women in the Clerical Occupations

Abstract

clerical occupations within the last few decades has become one of the most phenomenal, if also one of the least conspicuous of the economic changes which have been transforming the lives of women during that period.' The seven women stenographers and typists recorded by the census takers of 1870 would hardly have conceived it possible that they were precursors of a host which had become half a million by the census of 1990. But this is only typical of all the clerical occupations which have increased decade by decade with unbroken regularity. Where there were half a million clerical work-