For many generations one of the surest and most secure ways for a mostly female slice of the workforce to maintain a comfortable lifestyle was to slog away in a repetitive, dull desk job at a dull, repetitive business. For the longest time the tools of choice were typewriters, file cabinets, and carbon paper. The technology shifted dramatically to bulky desktop computers, floppy disks, and printers roughly forty years ago, but the essential tasks of tracking, invoicing, and filing remained much the same for the longest time. In exchange for a chunk of one’s life, you could tip-tap away on a keyboard, socialize (or flirt) with your co-workers, share birthday cakes in the break room, pass around envelopes to collect for special occasions such a wedding or baby shower, shop for a “Secret Santa” gift, gossip to your heart’s content, Read more