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 ...

A black-and-white photograph authentically shows three women around a sign that describes the "average United stewardess" as 23 years old, 117 pounds and 5'5" tall. One November 2024 post on Facebook, ...

There are two ways to look at last summer’s “Barbie” phenomenon. Was way too much made of the film and its use of a docile, objectified plaything to make points about female empowerment? Or not enough ...

CHICAGO – Back in the early 1970s when Cassandra "Casey" Grant began work as an airline stewardess, the position was a glamorous one. Stewardesses were looked up to like movie stars or models, Grant ...