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.
In this Live Interview with Nell McShane Wulfhart, we discuss the hidden labor and humiliation of the Airline Industry's "Swingin' 60's" image and how the "pretty faces" behind the tawdry ads fought back.