Women’s second-class status will never end under capitalism, Waters says, since it’s integral to divisions rulers depend on, and try to deepen, in working class to generate superprofits. Above, 350 flight attendants rally at San Francisco airport February 2024, against bosses’ attacks. They cheered at hearing fellow workers at Alaska Airlines had voted to authorize strike action. As a result of such resistance, things have come a ways for the better since 1950s United Airlines ad, below, with a checklist of dress and appearance rules for “stewardesses.”