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Secretarial jobs fell nearly 60% over the same period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Um, so for example, she made training plans for elite secretaries at Katie Gibbs Secretarial School, if you've ever heard of that.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

There were the “Gibbs girls,” the typists in training at the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, which leased two floors of the hotel to house its students.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

The respectable Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School took over three floors of the hotel for its students, as it filled up with young women “determined to type their way out of small-town America”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2021

Secretarial work was what she had really made up her mind to try for, though she had not had the courage to confess as much to her breakfast companion.

From To Love by Peterson, Margaret