Found some pages from a 1969 Telegraph.

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

So many non pc job adverts!

Well you have to share them don't you!

Join the men who lead!

Pre Moon Landing article

Lots of 'He will' in the job ads.

And there's always this one.... Love the byline!

@DrMadelineMaxwell Fascinating!!
I love this type of thing!

(obviously not the “man for the job” - but the slice of history.)

Just look at how unashamedly sexist things used to be. We have come a long way!!!!

Thank you for sharing!

Wow. Sometimes I find my dad to be from a different world. This shows he really was! 1969 isn't that long ago but no wonder my mum just assumed she'd be a housewife after having kids and didn't expect to have to work etc like we do now!

Not only sexist, but Ageist!

"Young Accountant" cringe.

I’ve so much respect for my dm and all the other women who broke these barriers. It is so lovely that our daughters and ourselves can laugh at this language (but I notice my dm never does)

Look at the wages too!

The adverts were also dreadful.

Some utter horrors here.

https://www.canvasartrocks.com/blogs/posts/102141062-51-shocking-vintage-adverts-that-would-get-banned-today

The baby drinking 7UP is nothing compared with a lot of the rest of them.

Definitely ageist too. Several ads specifying age range required eg 30-45.

Very outdated terms when referring to race in some of the articles too.

The terrifying thing is that a lot of Telegraph readers will still think that way.....

I started work in 1979 and things weren't much different then. I was a TV Rental shop manager at 19 and the customers would not believe I was a manager (1982).

Whilst we Boomers take a lot of flack, we really did have to fight to turn things round re equality. And it's not there yet. But we did pave the way.

We found a 1930s Express. The cartoons were… interesting. Rascist, sexist, jingoistic, you name it.

The default was white, Anglo-Saxon male. Everyone else was a facilitator.

I was told by a recruitment agency - in 1991 - that at 37 I was too old to go onto their books.

I'm 55 and I remember a job interview I had in a rural area in the early 1990s. It was with a major life insurance company, and only a few of us had passed the day-long assessment centre tasks and progressed to the interview. I was asked why I thought I needed to work when my husband had a good job............

Obviously you needed pin money for buying pretty dresses and having your hair done’

They would probably have said that 'the masculine includes the feminine' so using 'he' wouldn't necessarily mean women shouldn't apply.

TBH nowadays I wonder how much mindsets have changed, or if it's just language (like they're still looking for a young white male accountant, but can't say that openly)

The 'sausage error' was national news?😃

In the early 70s the airline job I started had only just stopped requiring you to leave if you got married. Your husband wouldn’t like it! What if you had to be away for a few nights? Who was going to cook his dinner and iron his shirts?

Never a mention of course of other perils, like the randy first officer who would slip a note under your hotel room door, saying, ‘The door is open, come and kiss me goodnight.’ 😂 (He was married, too)

In the 60s I well remember my working DM being absolutely incandescent with rage after she phoned HMRC about a tax rebate she was due.

The bloke on the other end had said, ‘This isn’t your money - it’s your husband’s.’ 🤬

In the early eighties, my sister in law was told that she was too old at almost eighteen for the job. They would have had to have paid her the adult rate at eighteen, hence her being too old.
In my local newspaper, I recently read an ' on this day ' piece. It told me that on this day in 1974, women couldn't cook their husband's breakfast due to a power cut affecting the region that morning.
God help those poor men who had to go to work on a bowl of cornflakes 😂