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This article addresses the issue of secretarial work as a job historically consigned to women, where different sensory experiences related to technological means are generated. The work follows various paths of analysis. Firstly, it sets out the sexual division of labour that designates occupations for women, as in this case, the secretarial one. Secondly, the idea of how the senses follow a social order in designation according to gender and occupation is recalled. Thirdly, the tasks carried out are displayed in this profession, where there is an involvement of the body in accordance with technology, the meeting of which can be considered as a sensory experience, in the terms of Merleau-Ponty, while there is a discipline of the bodies to carry out the assignments, recalling Mauss and Foucault. Finally, there is a focus on the contribution that the secretary provides through different body techniques such as shorthand, typing, dictation, and text editing, all of them generating a specific form of writing, which contains a construction, appropriation and meaning in the relationship of female work with regards to technology.