What is it about?

Through a case study of British Airways, this book examines how organizations develop, maintain and change discriminatory practices that form critical aspects of their organizational culture.

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Why is it important?

This book provides a history of gender relations in a major airline - British Airways, supplemented with histories of comparative airlines (Air Canada and Pan American Airways).

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Ten years in the making, this book is based on extensive archival work at the British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways archives. It provides an extensive and sweeping account of the employment and promotion of women in an important industry over time.

Professor Albert James Mills
Saint Mary's University

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This page is a summary of: Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230595705.
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