Dusty Roads

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>If you are a woman or a man ...</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you are concerned about the impact of politics on women ...</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Dusty Roads</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>will be a wake-up call for you.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Meet </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dusty Roads</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> one of the few brave voices way out in the wilderness where women worked in the world of the 1950s and 60s when it was mandatory for stewardesses to:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wear girdles and submit to flick checks to ensure they did.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maintain weight standards that would be shocking and unrealistic today.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Be willing to be paid less than men in the same job.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Phrases like <em>sex discrimination</em> and <em>women's right</em>s hadn't yet entered the nation's vocabulary.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The captivating story of Barbara Dusty Roads sets the stage for an eye-opening read as Dusty begins her fight against American Airlines' employment policies including firing stewardesses if they married or reached the age of 32. Airline leadership believed stewardesses had to be perpetually young single and attractive to entice traveling businessmen to buy tickets. Other airlines followed American's lead.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Incensed Dusty vowed to change the policies they were forced to work under. As the most influential voice in her union and one of the first female lobbyists in Washington DC Dusty quickly learned she was fighting for all women and against national gender discrimination</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Then in 1965 she filed the first-ever U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discrimination complaint on behalf of a colleague who was about to be fired at age 32. Her actions not only helped overturn unfair airline industry policies but also paved the way for workplace equality for men and women nationwide.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>I should be thanking you for everything you've done. You're the one who started it all!</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Gloria Steinem</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Author </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elaine Rock </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>drew on extensive interviews with Dusty Roads to bring her inspiring persistence alive for readers. Elaine is a former history teacher technology executive and women's rights advocate. She writes about little-known but heroic women and men whose perseverance and resilience helped shape history making them trailblazers. To view the color print versions of photographs and other bonus materials from her book on her website please go to the link on the Contact page at ElaineRock.com.</span></p>