How to Get a Job in the '60s: Have Your Husband Incorporate You

Here’s a “look back” at how things were for women in the 1960s. The blog post, How to Get a Job in the '60s: Have Your Husband Incorporate You -- A tale of pregnancy, bureaucracy, and an extremely literal instance of corporate personhood was written by Rebecca J. Rosen and published on July 25, 2014.

"Susan Elliott grew up in St. Louis in the middle of the 20th century. In the '50s she headed off to Smith College, and she graduated in 1958.

"I went to the college counselor and said, 'There's got to be a job in this country—somewhere—that I do not now have to go to typing school for,' " she recounted to me.

In fact there was: At the time, IBM was actively recruiting women and they had recently opened up a regional training center back home in St. Louis. This was fortuitous. "In those days," she says, "you didn't dream of going to New York and getting an apartment with other women. You went home, if you weren't getting married.""

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You also can view a YouTube video: Smith College Alumnae Profiles: Susan Elliott '58.