#ThanksForTyping

[bopper]

Holsinger and some colleagues were recently discussing how often the wives of male academics do significant work for which they are rarely given proper credit.

This reminded Holsinger of all the times he has read male authors thanking their wives for typing up manuscripts in the acknowledgments of their books. Curious to see how widespread the practice was, Holsinger did a quick search on Google Books and found dozens of "eye-opening" examples that he started sharing on Twitter with the hashtag #ThanksForTyping.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ishmaeldaro/thanks-for-typing-with-your-two-aching-fingers

https://twitter.com/omar_lizardo/status/1284879798641160192?s=20

[Parasaurolophus]

I saw a few such acknowledgements in books in my discipline that came out in the '90s and early aughts (and presumably earlier, but these are the ones that stick out for me). I haven't seen them more recently, however, presumably because nobody is afraid to Tyrannosaur their way around a keyboard these days. And the additional editing people put in shows.

It's pretty crazy how much uncompensated labour was and is around, underpinning everything we do.

[quasihumanist]

If you look back 150 years, you'll see SLACs that didn't hire unmarried men as professors because they were really also implicitly hiring their wives to cook and clean for the students.