It wasn’t just the destination. It was the journey. For centuries, the only way to get from the Old World to the New was a long ocean voyage. And for the first half of the 20th century, the trip ...

Travel writer Wulfhart (Off Menu) delivers a rousing history of how airline stewardesses in the 1960s and ’70s “harness[ed] the energy of the women’s movement to make radical change.” At the time, ...

Flight attendants in the 1960s were, to a one, young, thin, single women. But did they have to be in order to do the job? When stewardesses, as they were then called, began appealing to the newly ...

When LIFE ran a cover story in August 1958 on women that the magazine dubbed “Glamor Girls of the Air,” a career as an “air hostess” was still a relatively new pursuit. The way that LIFE described ...

Art by Tania Castro-Daunais. Source images from Wikimedia, NYU Tamiment Library, Kathleen Heenan. When the first widely-circulated issue of the pioneering feminist magazine, Ms., hit newsstands in ...

Fall TV’s retro reversal in female roles is scintillating on the surface but causing a stir among critics. TheWrap.com declared “The Return of Jiggle TV” with three shows in particular—“Pan Am”, “The ...

“Fly With Me” tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a ...

Its 6th season kicking off Sunday, April 7th, AMC's Mad Men has occasionally portrayed the glamour and excitement of air travel and the seemingly wild and carefree lives led by that era’s female ...

Minnesota state senator Gene Dornink doesn't know why he called pilot Laura Haynor a “stewardess” during a recent hearing in Minneapolis, but most women probably do. Earlier this week Minnesota ...

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Fly With Me” tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time ...

Part I. Patt -- Honeybuns on the charm farm -- Gloves to grievances -- The airstrip -- Sonia in fantasyland -- What the BFOQ? -- Black mollies -- Think of her as your mother -- Do women age faster on ...