Women were often the main typists leading up to this era (it’s true, look into it; they had buildings full of women sitting in front of typewriters) so is there any correlation to this advertisement featuring a woman? By the early 80s, computers were mainly advertised to businessman for personal bookkeeping.
I’m a feminist so don’t come at me bro, and this is a genuine question.
Edit: Telex. I should’ve looked into it further. I’m not familiar but it seems like this is what led to the curiosity which allowed the personal computer, in a mainstream setting.
I think a lot of tech was tedious mental labor for which women were recruited: think ordering punch cards, calculations, etc. I think it was only in the 1980s with the PC that they started getting pushed out of the programming field.
But I think this woman is here because the people who bought the machines women worked on were exclusively men.
If women were once viewed as lesser and given tedious tasks for being viewed as such; and now everyone that doesn’t have an impressive net-worth is being used for the same menial tasks… does this make the magnificent woman equal now, or have those that weren’t before considered to do these tasks less than they once were?
Women were often the main typists leading up to this era (it’s true, look into it; they had buildings full of women sitting in front of typewriters) so is there any correlation to this advertisement featuring a woman? By the early 80s, computers were mainly advertised to businessman for personal bookkeeping.
I’m a feminist so don’t come at me bro, and this is a genuine question.
Edit: Telex. I should’ve looked into it further. I’m not familiar but it seems like this is what led to the curiosity which allowed the personal computer, in a mainstream setting.
The job she did used to be called a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation).
A telex operator wasn’t a computer. A computer is someone who does calculations. A telex operator types and sends messages.
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I think a lot of tech was tedious mental labor for which women were recruited: think ordering punch cards, calculations, etc. I think it was only in the 1980s with the PC that they started getting pushed out of the programming field.
But I think this woman is here because the people who bought the machines women worked on were exclusively men.
If women were once viewed as lesser and given tedious tasks for being viewed as such; and now everyone that doesn’t have an impressive net-worth is being used for the same menial tasks… does this make the magnificent woman equal now, or have those that weren’t before considered to do these tasks less than they once were?