raise her two daughters. Therefore, her life was quite different from a secretary's life during this era. Naturally this book is focused on what life was like for her and the handful of female executives like her. There is a little information on what it was like for the girls in the typing pool but not much. Jane mentions the TV show Mad Men a few times, usually to point out an inaccuracy, which I appreciated. This book was published after the fourth season so only examples from the first four seasons are used. This was a very quick read as it's only a little over 200 pages long with fairly large font. Reading it was an enjoyable way to spend a Sunday afternoon and I liked learning more about the world of 1960s advertising. (less) ttp://www.cozylittlebookjournal.com/... Jane Maas' memoir of life as a woman in an advertising agency in the 1960's is targeted at fans of the TV show Mad Men, but I was more drawn to it because of how much I enjoyed Janet Groth's autobiography The Receptionist, about her career at The New Yorker in that same time period. I don't watch a lot of television and I've never been that interested in Mad Men. But I loved this book (watching the TV show is in no way a prerequisite, since it's an autobio ...more http://www.cozylittlebookjournal.com/... Jane Maas' memoir of life as a woman in an advertising agency in the 1960's is targeted at fans of the