Feminists in Flight:
Exploring Gender Equality
​ at 32,000 Feet
  • Home
  • Thesis
  • Flight Before Feminism
  • Explore, Encounter, Exchange
  • Attendants of Equality
    • Exploring Pink Collar Unionization
    • Redefining the Working Woman
    • Exchanging Empowerment
  • Turbulence
    • Unparalleled Opportunities
    • The BFOQ Defense
  • Conclusion
  • Our Research
    • Life on Board: Interviews
    • Bibliography
    • Process Paper

Attendants of Equality


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(Libela, 2013)
"Since 1930, when the first stewardesses took flight, airline marketing and employment policies succeeded brilliantly in creating a select corps of airborne "Glamour Girls," as Life Magazine called them in 1958, to help sell seats. What airlines had not counted on, however, was that lurking among the glamour girls were some militant union organizers and feminists."
         -Kathleen Barry
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(Unk. 1971)
Pink Collar Unionization
Exchanging empowerment
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(Cade, 1974)
Redefining the working woman