And Hoover was a chauvinist of the old school. When he first took charge of the bureau in 1922, there had been three female agents. He got rid of them. The next two female agents wouldn’t join the bureau until after his death in 1972. He argued that women weren’t agent material because they couldn’t be taught to shoot guns. Female clerks and secretaries at the bureau had to wear skirts and weren’t allowed to smoke at their desks as the men could.
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