The UNSPOKEN Rules Every 1950s Secretary Had to Live By - Boring History for Sleep
Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7v5S... Thank you so much for your support! ❤️ your support means the world. The 1950s secretary is often remembered as perfectly polished, neatly dressed, quick with a typewriter, calm on the telephone, and somehow always ready with coffee, carbon paper, shorthand, and a smile that looked legally required. But behind the tidy desks, clicking typewriters, office gossip, pencil skirts, and polite memos was a world of hidden rules that shaped how women were expected to behave, dress, speak, work, and quietly disappear behind their boss’s success. In this video, we explore the hidden rules every 1950s secretary had to live by. From typing pools and shorthand notebooks to strict office etiquette, appearance standards, coffee duties, low pay, marriage expectations, office flirtation, invisible emotional labor, and the exhausting art of being efficient without appearing too ambitious, we uncover what life was really like for the women who kept mid-century offices running. So get comfortable, dim the lights, and drift into a strange, polished, and quietly absurd world where your lipstick, posture, typing speed, telephone voice, hemline, lunch hour, and ability to remember a man’s appointments somehow became part of the job. Resources: A Brief History of Secretaries – TIME – https://time.com/3821403/administrati... Sexism Toward Secretaries: How Women Were Treated on the Job in the US – Teen Vogue – https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sexis... Administrative Professionals Day – History and Background – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adminis... Secretary – Occupational and Historical Background – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary Secretarial Pool – Office Typing Pools and Clerical Work – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secreta... Typewriter – Social Effects and Women in Office Work – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter #boringhistoryforsleep #historyforsleep #1950shistory #womenshistory #OfficeHistory #Secretaries #MidCenturyAmerica #sleephistory
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