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The Chinese airline, Spring Airlines, was criticized by netizens after announcing its plans to recruit married women as…
flight attendant
and refers to her as ‘Aunt Air’.
As reported
VN Express
, the title ‘Air Aunt’ is given because according to Spring Airlines, married flight attendants, even housewives (IRT), have life experience and high empathy in taking care of passengers.
Previously, this affordable airline announced that it was opening job vacancies for flight attendant positions.
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Different from job vacancies in general, the qualifications requested by this airline are women aged 25-40 years, who have hospitality experience, with a height of 162-174 cm.
Applicants will also be preferred if they are married and have children.This announcement suddenly became the focus of netizens.
The controversy escalated after a recruiter gave an applicant the title ‘Air Aunt’, as quoted from
The Independent Singapore News
.
The recruiting manager told
China News Service
, this designation is given in the hope that through their life experience they can be more empathetic and neat in serving children and older passengers.
Spring Airlines believes that this step is an effort to expand its workforce and support job opportunities for women.
However, the Shanghai-based airline’s defense was not enough to control netizens’ anger, in fact criticism increasingly erupted on Chinese social media.
Most netizens criticized the use of the term ‘Aunt Air’ as being disrespectful.”This title is very disrespectful to women. It highlights that they are older and married,” wrote one netizen.
There are also those who argue that the word ‘Auntie’ refers to a term for close family, in this case also including the figure of a housewife who takes care of her husband and children.
Meanwhile, in some regions of Asia, the term ‘Auntie’ does not only describe relatives.However, this term also applies to women who are generally older, so netizens think that the term ‘Aunt Air’ is too sexist or ageist.
Responding to criticism from netizens, the airline said that they did not mean to misinterpret the term.Spring Airlines also emphasized that the duties, salaries and career paths for recruits will be the same as other flight attendants.
“There is nothing wrong with this. What I know is that they will definitely take care of their passengers,” concluded a netizen who defended the airline’s move in giving its prospective flight attendants a new title.
(ana/wiw)
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