(1)In the old days, when the sight of a woman in the office was looked upon as something shocking enough to distract others in the workplace, secretaries were men.(2)Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man’s secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to away; and, of course, typing, filing and taking shorthand.(3)Now all this may be changing again. High technology is sweeping the British office, taking away much of the daily office work that secretaries used to do.(4) “Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high powered work―and then men will want to do it again.”(5)That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial (秘书的) agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way