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20 things that men don’t like about women in the office – according to 1940s misogyny

@sophie_gadd has shared an amazing find, taken from the book What Men Don’t Like About Women by Thomas D. Horton published in 1945.

The page on women in the office is extraordinary:

IV. WOMEN IN THE OFFICE

1. Their initial impoliteness.

2. Their assumptions with regard to lunch.

3. Their snooping.

4. Their over-listening.

5. Their imprudent criticisms.

6. Their strange gratitude.

7. Their free medical advice.

8. Their special rudeness.

9. Their messy tidiness.

10. Their appalling desk manners.

II. Their open-faced bid for a free dinner.

12. Their lack of consideration.

13. Their misapplied femininity.

14. Their private lives.

15. Their boy friends.

16. Their dull stories.

17. Their pretended culture.

18. Their unfair sex practices.

19. Their lack of shame.

20. Their impertinent questions.

Source: https://twitter.com/sophie_gadd/status/446350654853099521