Heather Long on how older women are being left behind in the new automated economy. Reed Albergotti investigates unwanted sexual behavior on iPhone chat apps. And Julie Zauzmer on Trump’s executive order to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses.
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The disappearing act of administrative assistant jobs
Jobs such as bookkeeping, secretarial work and data entry have historically been a path for elevation to the middle class. But those jobs are disappearing.
Since 2000, the United States has shed more than 2.1 million administrative and office support jobs. “The vast, vast majority of those jobs are held by women,” says economics correspondent Heather Long.