The World According to Don Draper
Don Draper claims that love was invented by guys like him to sell nylons. You might not believe it but you're also unlikely to forget it. That's the great thing about the Creative Director at Sterling Cooper. Sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's blunt, and when it comes to any aspect of life, love or business, he's bound to be quotable.
Check out The World According to Don Draper, a compilation of his most memorable lines from Mad Men Season 1.
Having worked for a Don Draper and married him, I think you're spot on with the MCP labeling. But you have 3 widely disparate types of women here: the cold rational women scientist, the secretaries and the corporate wives. From this many women, we should be seeing a few early women libbers, such as I was, along with being a computer programmer. And we did like the men, but of course there were some men haters in the feminist ranks.
One more thing: When will the full back built artist get outed?. He is so gay that anyone watching that show knows it immediately: another reason for his over the top flirtiness, but never seen with a woman.
My friend Judy worked for Young & Rubicam in 1962 and she remembers women in the executive ranks as account executives, creatives, and vice presidents. So the writers of "Mad Men" are laying on the secretaries-only schtick a bit thick!
Yes, it was a male dominated culture with lots of "boy talk", cigarette smoking, and after-hours booze; but Judy never saw a full bar in anyone's office. Working on Mad Ave was stressful: it's a high-risk, fast-paced, deadline-driven business; the staff skews young, so there's a work-hard/play-hard mentality; after slogging longs hours the Y&R staff let loose at well-known watering holes like PJ Clarke's.
And, yes, everyone who worked at an ad agency then (and even now) knew how to dress in styles that were very current: you had to look good in case a client meeting was scheduled last-minute, and it was (is) expected that ad workers were "current" and stylish!