How advertisers used sexism to usher in the computer age.

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The SUSIE computer “is operated by a typist—not highly paid programmers and controllers,” says the ad copy. Even though it states that the computer “is programmed in plain language from tape or by the typist,” the operator remains just a typist, not a “highly paid programmer.”

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