Editing Typewriter (section)

== Social effects ==
[[File:CantYouSeeImBusyCardCropped.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Putatively humorous "Get out! Can't you see I'm busy" postcard (1900s)]]
When Remington started marketing typewriters, the company assumed the machine would not be used for composing but for transcribing dictation, and that the person typing would be a woman. The 1800s [[Sholes and Glidden typewriter]] had floral ornamentation on the case.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1876 Sholes, Gidden, Soule invention |url=http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00451/typewriter.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214222817/http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00451/typewriter.htm |archive-date=14 December 2012 |access-date=29 December 2012}}</ref>

During World Wars I and II, increasing numbers of [[Women's roles in the World Wars|women]] were entering the workforce. In the United States, women often started in the professional workplace as [[copy typist]]s. Being a typist was considered the right choice for a "good girl", meaning women who presented themselves as being chaste and having good conduct.<ref>Boyer, Kate, and Kim England. "Gender, Work and Technology in the Information Workplace: From Typewriters to ATMs." Social & Cultural Geography 9.3 (2008): 241–256. Web.</ref> According to the 1900 census, 94.9% of stenographers and typists were unmarried women.<ref>Waller, Robert A. "Women and the Typewriter During the First Fifty Years, 1873–1923". Studies in Popular Culture 9.1 (1986): 39–50. Web.</ref>

Questions about morals made a salacious businessman making sexual advances to a female typist into a cliché of office life, appearing in [[vaudeville]] and movies. The "[[Tijuana bible]]s"—adult comic books produced in Mexico for the American market, starting in the 1930s—often featured women typists. In one panel, a businessman in a three-piece suit, ogling his secretary's thigh, says, "Miss Higby, are you ready for—ahem!—er—dictation?"<ref name="ja">[https://newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/09/070409crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all Newyorker.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929165400/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/09/070409crbo_books_acocella?currentPage=all |date=2007-09-29 }} Acocella, Joan, "The Typing Life: How writers used to write", ''[[The New Yorker]]'', April 9, 2007, a review of ''The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting'' (Cornell) 2007, by Darren Wershler-Henry</ref>

The typewriter was a useful machine during the censorship era of the Soviet government, starting during the [[Russian Civil War]] (1917–1922). [[Samizdat]] was a form of surreptitious self-publication used when the government was censoring what literature the public could see. The Soviet government signed a [[Soviet Decree|Decree on Press]] which prohibited the publishing of any written work that had not been previously officially reviewed and approved.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-25 |title=Decree on the Press |url=http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/organs-of-the-press/organs-of-the-press-texts/decree-on-the-press/ |access-date=2019-12-09 |website=Seventeen Moments in Soviet History |language=en-US}}</ref> Unapproved work was copied manually, most often on typewriters.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://kula.uvic.ca/ |title=KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies. |date=2017 |language=en |oclc=1126556820}}</ref> In 1983, a new law required anyone who needed a typewriter to get police permission to buy or keep one. In addition, the owner would have to register a typed sample of all its letters and numbers, to ensure that any illegal literature typed with it could be traced back to its source.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bolintineanu |first1=Alexandra |last2=Thirugnanasampanthan |first2=Jaya |date=2018-11-29 |title=The Typewriter Under the Bed: Introducing Digital Humanities through Banned Books and Endangered Knowledge |journal=KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=22 |doi=10.5334/kula.30 |issn=2398-4112 |doi-access=free|s2cid=158322355 }}</ref> The typewriter became increasingly popular as the interest in prohibited books grew.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aleeva |first=Ekaterina |date=2017-07-10 |title=Samizdat: How did people in the Soviet Union circumvent state censorship |url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/07/10/samizdat_797635 |access-date=2019-12-09 |website=www.rbth.com |language=en-US}}</ref>