She is now employed as a clerkess in Management Accounts section.

You never saw a secretary or a typist or a clerkess eating there.

For the past eleven years Joan has worked as a Clerkess in the dyed yarn store office, recording piece work production figures.

I had about ten staff working for me at that time, all girls and women, supervised by the Senior Clerkess, Emily Lightbody.

May, who lives in Causewayhead with her husband Mike, joined us at Abbey Road as a clerkess and was promoted five years later.

In 1975 she had had to give up her job as a council clerkess as she had contracted asbestos-related pleurisy and pleural thickening.

In January 1993 it was agreed to advertise not only for a Secretary but also a clerkess and 160 applicants were received for the post of Secretary.

Two inner offices, panelled in frosted glass, concealed Mrs. Taylor, recently promoted from being a Senior Clerkess, and Alan Prentice.

Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958, a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics.

'We have a part-time rep on the Orkney mainland, and we are getting more and more work from there,' says Hardcastle, a part-time clerkess at the local school.

In response to the Radio Clyde 'Cash for Kids' appeal, Nancy Clark, post desk clerkess, organised a collection which resulted in a cheque for £236 being sent to the appeal.

Liz Watt, cashier clerkess at Grampian TV in Aberdeen, was recently presented with gifts from CCG and Grampian in recognition of 20 years service at the television station.

Wherever the industrial spirit has triumphed over the military and aristocratic spirit, woman strives for the economic and legal independence of a clerk: "woman as clerkess" is inscribed on the portal of the modern society which is in course of formation.