After an education at the University of North Carolina, Hawks began to study the law, but abandoned it in favor of a clerical occupation.

Artisans and entrepreneurs and members of the clerical occupations were among them.

Her early research documented the work and family lives of heretofore neglected women of color in domestic service and women in clerical occupations.

In general, people in Springwood work in a clerical occupation.

Levels of skilled and semiskilled labour were relatively low; together they exceeded those in retail and clerical occupations, but not by much.

In comparison to the general population, significantly higher proportions of patients with cystic fibrosis of both sexes were following non-manual, particularly clerical, occupations.

Those in blue- and pink-collar as well as clerical occupations are referred to as working class in these class models.

Originally the service was geared toward the blue-collar, clerical and service occupations.

The same argument probably also applies to clerical and secretarial occupations, where again the seasonal, temporary or casual relationship predominates.

As with other predominantly female positions, clerical occupations were, and to some extent continue to be, assigned relatively low prestige on a sexist basis.