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Workplace Gender Equality

The airlines attempted to make positive their stewardesses didn’t keep around lengthy sufficient to develop into dissatisfied with their positive aspects or acquainted with their union. The average tenure when the Panter sisters arrived was about eighteen months, thanks to a rule requiring the women to quit if they got married. In an era that was breaking all records for early weddings, that was all it took to ensure really speedy turnover. If a stewardess was nonetheless on the job following 3 years, one particular United executive said in 1963, “I’d know we have been acquiring the incorrect sort of...