Although views have softened, men who cross the sexual segregation line in the job market may still face discrimination and ridicule. David Anderson, a 36 ear ld former high school teacher, says he found secretarial work “a way out of teaching and into the business world.” He had applied for work at 23 employment agencies for “management training jobs that didnt exist,” and he discovered that “the best skill I had was being able to type 70 words a minute.”

He took a job as a secretary to the marketing director of a New York publishing company. But he says he could feel a lot of people wondering what I was doing there and if something was wrong with me.

Mr. Andersons boss was a woman. When she asked him to fetch coffee, he says, “the other secretaries eyebrows went up.” Sales executives who came in to see his boss, he says, “couldnt quite believe that I could and would type, take dictation, and answer the phones.”

Males sometimes find themselves mistaken for higher?tatus professionals. Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with US Air Inc., has been mistaken for a pilot. Mr. Anderson, the secretary, says he found himself being “treated in executive tones whenever I wore a suit.”

In fact, the men in traditional female jobs often move up the ladder fast. Mr. Anderson actually worked only seven months as a secretary. Then he got ahigherevel, better　aying job as a placement counselor at an employment agency. “I got a lot of encouragement to advance,” he says, “including job tips from male executives who couldnt quite see me staying a secretary.”

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