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Document, Diploma of Graduation from the Sacred Heart Commercial School

Document, Diploma of Graduation from the Sacred Heart Commercial School

Date1945
Credit LineGift of Evoda Pickering, London, Ontario, 2017
Object number2017.016.006
Label TextLondoner Eva (Evoda) Gandolfo graduated from the Sacred Heart Commercial School in October 1945. She had completed a course of study that included typing and filing. By the mid-20th century, women outnumbered men in commercial courses. Businesses needed specialists in areas like stenography and typing, which had been sex-typed as women’s work.
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