Above, stewardesses from NordStar Airlines in Russia, a retrogressive country that still hires based on "stereotypical notions of sexual allure." Bloomberg, below, chose to illustrate this story with a picture of an airplane.
From Bloomberg:
United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews
Robert Burnson
September 12 2020 — United Airlines Holdings Inc. packs its charter flights for sports teams with young, blond crews and bars older flight attendants from working the plum routes, according to a new lawsuit. In so doing, the airline bases the value of workers “entirely on their racial and physical attributes, and stereotypical notions of sexual allure,” according to two veteran flight attendants who sued Friday in California. The attendants — a Black woman who has worked for the airline for 28 years and a Jewish woman with 34 years of tenure — say that they both tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get assigned to work the charter flights. …
United Airlines “has adopted and continues to implement procedures that are designed to ensure that young, white, blond/blue-eyed, female employees receive positions with the charter program, while more senior, and Black and Jewish employees such as plaintiffs, do not,” they said in the complaint.
