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>>8760903

A lot of people have no idea. Jobs were usually gender segregated but only rich women could afford to stay at home all day before the postwar economic boom.

One of the jobs women could do was called being a "calculator." They just did tedious and repetitive math calculations for engineering firms and businesses all day, because electronic calculators hadn't been invented yet. They had to be educated enough to use a slide rule, so it was usually middle class women who became calculators.