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Concerning images of women in government offices in the early twentieth century: What difference does age make?

This paper focuses on images of women who worked in government offices and explores the ways in which age, along with gender and class, became institutionalised as a marker of difference among them in the early twentieth century. It argues that the girl typist was etched sharply in the public imagination and, although there were anxieties about her youth and femininity, by the 1930s the more ambiguous image of the middle‐aged single ‘lady officer’ constituted the greater threat to patriarchy.