An anomaly about clerical pay in the 1800s was
A) the higher the pay, the lower the productivity.
B) women received less pay than men, but still earned more in clerical work than in any other field.
C) typewriters and bookkeeping machines, which were expensive to acquire, also raised the customary wages of clerical workers.
D) minority women, who were rarely hired as clerical workers, were paid more than men when they were hired.
E) married women were paid more than single women for doing the same work.
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