National Emma M. Nutt Day September 1, 2022, history, quotes
Long ago, in 1878, the first telephone operator started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. What image do you have in your mind when you think of a phone operator? Clean white blouse, sensible ankle length skirt, and a friendly female voice? You may be surprised that the first operator was a man, in fact all of the first ones were. But their reign wasn’t to last, in September of 1878 Emma M Nutt became the first female phone operator, and from that point forward it’s been a woman’s industry. National Emma M. Nutt Day celebrates this pioneer and all she and her fellow operators have done for communication since!
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Terry Pratchett,
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History of National Emma M. Nutt Day
Like almost all other jobs, telephone services started as a man’s world. The first telephone operators were all men but after few days managers and customers realized that men were impatient and rude with their customers. To avoid this customer, the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston,
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
Richelle Mead
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Massachusetts decided to hire women as telephone operators. So on September 1, 1878, Alexander Graham Bell himself appointed Emma M Nutt as the world’s first female telephone operator. Emma M Nutt’s appointment was path-breaking in many ways, She made a drastic change in the telecommunication industry in the United States, by the mid-1900s, most of the telephone operators in the country were women.
For a few years, she also worked together with her sister Stella Nutt, creating the first sister pair of operators in history too. Also, her employment strengthened the slowly penetrating belief that women could work outside their homes and also contribute to the society and economy.
I felt like one of Apollo’s sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Rick Riordan
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Other Celebrations on September 1
September 1 is also celebrated as
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
No Rhyme or Reason Day
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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How to celebrate National Emma M. Nutt Day
One of our favorite ways to celebrate Emma M Nutt day is to get on the phone and dial the operator, when they pick up, male or female, we thank them for the work they do and tell them who the first telephone operator was. It’s also fun to sit down and look back through the pages of history and see how far the telephone switchboard has come. The world is ever advancing, but chances are we’ll always need the friendly voice of operators like Emma M Nutt to help us find those particularly tricky numbers. Thank you Emma, and all the operators that have followed for helping us keep in touch!
