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Meseria de secretară - feminizare şi evoluţie
The Secretary Profession - feminization and evolution

Author(s): Doina Vasilescu
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Societatea de Analize Feministe AnA
Keywords: the "femninisation" and evolution of the profession of secretary; the origins of the profession of secretary or assistent;

Summary/Abstract: Initially, the profession of a secretary was a masculine job, but the last decades womanised it and the term "secretary" is always feminine in Romanian. The evolution continues and modifies the secretary status: the change of mentality, new technologies and new work methids - the manager assistant has new abilities (organisation and communication). These impose new quality standards in the ways of training the secretary at the working place. New roles, diversity, future connected to the telework, founding of a secretary professional association whose purpose would be to establish the identitiy of this profession.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 30-35
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian