 “When secretaries were men, clerical work was well paid, upwardly mobile and high status. When women became secretaries, they hit a low-paid dead end. The same thing happened when women replaced men as sewing-machine operators, bank tellers and telephone operators. The market seems to notice when the workers in a job undergo a sex change.”
Miller was the first female member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council (see below) and was also a founding member and later president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. photo courtesy The New York Times Comments are closed.
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