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Flight attendants helped to ground sex discrimination

October 19, 2014

During her 34-year career as a flight attendant, Shari Worrell of Lake Barrington and other young women who started as stewardesses helped change the way the airlines and all employers dealt with women in the wake of the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act of 1946 and its Title VII, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20141019/news/141018104/
 
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