Comment by prewett

6 days ago

It started in the 1930s, so I think the answer is no, they weren't expected to do those things. I expect it would have been very difficult to get hired as a reporter (Tintin's profession) as a women in the 1930s. Even the detectives of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers were men, despite the authors being women.

But, you're in luck, there's Yoko Tsuno [1], also by a Belgian, I believe, but started 40 years later.