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News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s

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The Struggles to Overcome Sexism in the Workplace

Sally Kohn: I want to talk about the ways in which, like you said, the sexism was baked into the cake of anti-labor practices and how they reinforced it. How did those women overcome that?Kohn: The fight against these sexist barriers were also at the same time a fight for more labor security. And so even within the ranks of the stewardesses, you have like, oh, well, some of the Stewardesses thought the weight limits were made sense.

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