Channel: David Hoffman

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Description: This stewardess/flight attendant spokesperson told an incredible story based on her own experiences. I selected her to be one of the people who presented their 1960s experiences for my six part primetime television series Making Sense Of The Sixties which ran on public television in 1990. The interviews were made in 1989 with people reflecting back on that time. My goal in the series was to let people who I called extraordinary/ordinary people, people who had grown up in the 1950s and 1960s, express their feelings and their memories to younger people who were in their late teens and early 20s in the 1990s. In other words, to the children of the baby boom generation. Approximately 40% of the baby boomers (over 80 million Americans) said in a poll that they participated in the events of the 1960s. I selected individuals representing a variety of points of view, political and social. This woman made radical changes in her life as she grew more comfortable becoming a leader in the flight attendant’s union and as a woman who objected to some of the ways that she was treated in the workplace and outside of it. She experienced what she called "pretty girl" sexism of all kinds on almost every day basis. Although she did not express aggressive anger, I can remember that in her interview, she became very vocal when talking about how she felt how men and the airline industry treated her and her colleagues. While she did not consider herself a feminist or a particularly political women's rights advocate, she certainly defined herself as someone who no longer accepted how she had been treated and was glad she had worked to make changes. If you would like to see other clips from the interviews that my team and I did in 1989, search the words "making sense of" on my YouTube channel and many clips will pop up. To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at patreon.com/allinaday. Join my channel and get access to my perks: youtube.com/channel/UC6wBro4B4pf9xnBh9Xi2zcQ/join