ed some analysts to conclude that the invention of the typewriter was basically responsible for the employment of women in offices in the United States" (p68). The invention of the typewriter led to excellent jobs for women in the nineteenth century. Women could now hold clerical occupations. These clerical occupations included positions as stenographers and typists. For women, these were dream jobs. Now, women would not have to work in factories under extremely harsh conditions. "Clerical work was generally seen as more desirable than industrial work, and this spurred women of working-class origins to seek clerical jobs" (p71). In taking clerical positions, women would work fewer hours and make decent pay. The payment that these clerical workers made was often thought to be extra money. "In addition women were often thought to be working for "pin money" with which to make frivolous Adams 3 purchases" (p69). This made it all right for employers to pay clerical workers, more specifically women clerical workers, less pay than men made. Women were given these jobs as clerical workers and typists, for the most part because it was not thought to be a dominant male job, and because it had not yet been claimed as a male job. "In fact, it was not too long afterwards that women were claimed to be more manually dexterous and tolerant of routine tha

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