TAA and Qantas
Women were largely excluded from Qantas as its history was predominantly male.The flying boats were crewed by ex merchant navy personnel.The managment felt that because of the arduous nature of flying it was best done by men.There were hostesses but they made up less than 10% of crew numbers.If you were female and wanted to fly the domestic carriers were the best choice.It was only in the mid 80s that Qantas started balancing up the male/female ratio.Today mor than 70% of Qantas(LH) CC are female.
For some reason Ansett and Qantas crews got on better with each than did TAA.
The tribalism we see today had its nexus in the 60s and 70s.Its basically down to the resentment that TAA crew have toward QF crew.Tall women in comfortable shoes ruled TAA while the blokes ran Qantas.Imagine the glee when TAA took Qantas over.
Jimmy bowtie bought all his mates into fill QF management positions.The Redtail men were removed.So began the Qantas demise.Borghetti was one of the last of those men