List of Tables List of Figures LIst of Exhibits List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Gender, Culture and Commercial Airlines The Gendering of Civil Aviation 1919-1924 Thoroughly Modern Milieu: The Feminine Presence in the Airways Their Finest Hour: Gendering and the Second World War Angels with Dirty Faces: Strategies of 'Normalization' and 'Equity' in the Immediate Post-War Era The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Jet Age and the Eroticization of the Female Employee Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards an Employment Equity Discourse From Here to Eternity: Making Sense of the Gendering of Organizational Culture Appendix Notes Bibliography