Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Title: Western Airlines flight attendants with signs reading "Don’t Weigh Our Performance by the Scales" picketing ticket counter in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974
Photographer: Montney, Cal
Date Created: October 21, 1974
Date: 1974-10-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Caption: WEIGH IN--Western Airlines stewardesses picket company ticket counter at L.A. Airport to protest recent firing of a stewardess who was four pounds overweight. From left they are Lorraine Storto (back to camera), Glenrae Jenks, Helen Barrios, Carol Zemke and Lila Lynn.

Genre: news photographs
Names: Western Airlines--Employees
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Discrimination against overweight women--California--Los Angeles County
Women--Employment--United States
Picketing--California--Los Angeles County
Flight attendants--United States
Activism
Body weight--United States
Discrimination in employment--United States
Women--Social conditions

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b739_279102
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002pvhz
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