Early in my journalism career, I was at a press conference when I noticed one of the reporters for a major New York daily frantically scribbling notes in shorthand -- a skill I foolishly stereotyped ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

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