WOMEN'S -JOBS- WONDER : SPECIAL HISTORY ESSAY

WHEN WOMEN gain jobs - it's not entirely a triumph. The new roles they take on are often no longer wanted by men, researchers find. Secretaries were once almost all men. The job went to women when it lost upward mobility. With the rise of the modern corporation around the turn of the 20th century, however, the secretary became more like a noncommissioned officer - a worker with real responsibility…