In today’s society, gender inequality is still an ever present source of contention and has yet to be remedied fully and utterly. With the advent of the ‘New Woman’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the role of women in society has always been a particular point of fascination, for both contemporaries and historians alike. The image of the doting and flirtatious secretary can be seen, therefore, as emblematic of the working woman for more than a century. Her sexualised role in the male dominated office setting left her vulnerable in her place of work to perverted scrutiny, abject ridicule and physical harassment.