The most common job for women is the same as it was in 1950

Secretary still tops the list — and the feds expect America to add another half-million administrative assistants by 2020

Secretaries in the office of Topps Chewing Gum Factory in Brooklyn, New York, 1960.
(Image credit: Russell Knight/BIPs/Getty Images)

Would you say a lot's changed since the 1950s? The Cold War. Civil Rights. Elvis Presley.

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