re: #403 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Well, the first secretaries were men. After women proved they could handle the “machine” (typewriter) and understood it, and were found to be proficient on it, bosses discovered they could pay women much less.

As has always been the case, men had “families to support” which is the excuse used over and over. That very phrase is what pushed me into second wave feminism since I was a divorced woman w/2 kids receiving little to no child support. I had to support my kids, as the majority of single mothers do and saw the inequities first hand. It’s still happening, in spite of the women execs the press likes to tout.