Working Girl Wednesdays: Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Office

Welcome to Working Girl Wednesdays! Need advice on handling the complexities of the modern workplace? Well, fret no more! Whether it’s a senior partner making a move or a catty co-worker plotting for your plum position, Helen Gurley Brown’s 1964 book Sex and the Office has a solution. Every Wednesday, I’ll present a new tip from the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan. Is her advice hilariously outdated or startlingly prescient? You decide!

Here’s a quote from the first chapter,  entitled “How to Love a Boss”:

The better job you have and the better you are in it, the better the men you get to fraternize with (instead of just stealing hungry looks at them from your file-girl perch). And though it may seem to the untrained eye that you are selflessly working on office projects together, what you are really doing is sinking into them like a cobalt treatment so that you may make off with them after work—if that’s your pleasure. (Of course I think getting married to the first man you make off with in an office or anywhere else is so dull. You ought to sample several before you make up your mind.)

Comments

[vanessa]

Blast from the past!