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Documenting health risks at 35,000 feet

2020 paper looks at sexual harassment of flight crews

DateAugust 25, 2020 In the latest paper from the Harvard Chan Sustainability and Health Initiative for Netpositive Enterprise (SHINE) program titled “Work, Gender, and Sexual Harassment on the Frontlines of Commercial Travel: A Cross-Sectional Study of Flight Crew Well-Being,” researchers examined the scale and scope of experience of sexual harassment at work among male and […]

Flight attendants face significant amount of sexual harassment on the job

August 24, 2020 Sexual harassment appears to be a significant and underreported problem among both female and male flight attendants, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, which was published August 17, 2020 in the International Journal of Aerospace Psychology, looked at data from 8,700 flight attendants […]

Work, Gender, and Sexual Harassment on the Frontlines of Commercial Travel: A Cross-Sectional Study of Flight Crew Well-Being

Work, Gender, and Sexual Harassment on the Frontlines of Commercial Travel: A Cross-Sectional Study of Flight Crew Well-Being In the latest paper, researchers Dorota Weziak-Białowolska, Piotr Białowolski, Irina Mordukhovich, and Eileen McNeely examined the scale and scope of experience of sexual harassment at work among male and female flight attendants. View and download the full […]

‘They’re hiding something’: Southwest flight attendant speaks out about severe reactions to uniforms

by Catherine Dunn, Updated: March 7, 2020 Her dermatologist put it this way, according to a medical form Osborne submitted to Southwest that September: If she “continues to wear the uniform, she will continue to have a severe rash that may reduce her ability to perform her duties.” Over the last decade, flight attendants at […]

A look at how the human body may cope with world’s longest flight

Eileen McNeely, co-founder and director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tells CNN Travel that the health impacts passengers could face on super long haul flight are similar those on shorter flights, but increased. “Exposures that are taxing on the body will […]