In the Aviatrix Book Club discussion book for September 2023, author Nell McShane Wulfhart gives us the previously unsung heroines of both the aviation industry and the women's rights movement: the airline stewardesses whose fight against blatant, unapologetic, institutionalized sexism laid the groundwork for equal rights beyond the airlines. This lynchpin story in our history illuminates the context into which the first generation of female airline pilots entered the workforce and explains the challenges they faced in being taken seriously as professionals and not dismissed as servant/sex objects. Anyone concerned with advancing diversity in aviation should read this book to fully understand from whence we came.
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