Blog post: swansont: "Women's Work"

Though Hawkins doesn't quite say it. There is a distinct gendered component to this discomfort. Typing was women's work and these business people, born in the 1930s and 1940s, didn't scrap their way up the bureaucracy to be relegated to the very secretarial work they'd been devaluing all along.

 

Because -- and here comes the psychological reason -- they were not good at the work that their female employees had been doing. And that made them feel bad.