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Flight Attendants and Queer Civil Rights
2013
Overview
The 1960s were effectively a lost decade for male flight attendants. The historical norm, established in the 1930s and still true into the mid-1950s, of having men compose a sizable percentage of the flight attendant corps had been broken. The career was now preponderantly female, so much so that only 4 percent of flight attendants were men by 1966.¹ This small vestige of men tended to be well-paid, very senior employees at Pan Am and Eastern, men hired back in the post-World War II years. Others were pursers at other international carriers, while the remainder were Hawaiian men hired at
