Upbeat Former Prof
My mom was offered jobs over other applicants solely on the basis of her shorthand ability.
Caroline Coward
As a kid I was obsessed with the lady in The Westing Game who kept notes in Polish shorthand so no one could read them.
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Lady MacDeath
My take-home is that shorthand is like so many talents that were highly gendered and required a ton of effort but weren’t valued as much as they should have been, like weaving, baking, mathematical computing, etc. Our mothers and grandmothers deserved so much more.
Terry McGlynn
My mom was trained by a brokerage to do commodities training on Wall Street and did this work on the down low. But she wasn’t allowed to get her trading license because gender. Then she finally got married at the advanced age of 30, so the firm fired her as a matter of policy.
Terry McGlynn