Episode 6: Sexism Takes Flight

In the 1960s, the airline industry ramped up its sexualization of stewardesses in order to increase revenues. Decades before the movement, flight attendants navigated a workplace in which their employers required them to stay thin, remain unmarried, and squeeze into revealing clothing every day. In the early 1970s, flight attendants organized one of the first campaigns against workplace sexual harassment, assault, and sexual discrimination.

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Episode 6: Sexism Takes Flight is an episode from Sexing History by Gillian Frank & Lauren Gutterman.

This episode is 00:36:51 long.

This episode was published on Feb 13, 2018.

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