Few people today can imagine forced retirement at age 32 or monthly weight checks by a supervisor as a condition of employment. “I got a call from our Miami base and they said, ‘Our scale is broken, and the company is using baggage scales to weigh us,’” said Patricia Friend, a former flight attendant and union representative. “That’s how demeaning it was to work in that environment.” These were just a few of the discriminatory policies that only applied to female flight …