WebDigger Wrote:
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> Carol L. Voss Wrote:
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> And of course later on airline stewardesses were
> allowed to marry and keep their jobs as well.
> Don't remember when that happened but it certainly
> was after the '50's when my friends were "stews"
> as they were called then, now "flight
> attendants".and come to think of it, men were also
> allowed to become "stews" at some point as well.
> Someone who posts here should surely be able to
> tell us when all those changes took place. I'm
> just too lazy to Google! :-)
> C.
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> Wikipedia says "The restriction of hiring only
> women was lifted at all airlines and men were able
> to be hired as flight attendants in 1971 due to
> the decisive court case of Diaz vs. Pan Am. The
> no-marriage rule was eliminated throughout the US
> airline industry by the 1980s."
> [en.wikipedia.org]

I am 77 years old and when I was at Cal in 1954-58 I had an older sorority sister and a high school friend who were accepted to be Pan Am stews and it was a really big big deal!! Both of these ladies were gorgeous, were about 5'7 and traveled all over the world. But the day they decided to marry, end of career. I thought of that in the last few years as we have flown hither and yon on various airlines and the ladies serving us our "coffee, tea or milk" are women in their mid-forties or older, a far cry from their predecessors of my hey day-------and cheers for them!! YOu don't have to be a bimbo to do your job well!! :-)
C.