The terms steward or stewardess can refer to a number of different professional roles.
The title of Steward was sometimes given to the person in charge of a noble's domestic staff and household. Equivalent terms include majordomo, castellan, and seneschal. In some countries, the duties of a steward became more substantial, and included the management of finances and property. The House of Stuart, which eventually became the royal house of Scotland, originally gained both its position and its name from their position as stewards to the king. A fictional example is the Stewards of Gondor, found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
A steward or stewardess can be a person employed in attending to the safety and comfort of passengers aboard a ship or an aircraft. In the 1930s, airlines began calling their employees stewardesses (nearly all were female) based on the use of this term on ships. During the 1970s the gender-neutral term flight attendant was adopted, but many still refer to flight attendants as "stewardesses," and the nickname among flight attendants for themselves remains "stew".
In IT, a steward is somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT Organization in which they belong.
A shop steward is the local representative of a union in a place of work. They are often unpaid for the work and usually conduct union business in their own time. They recruit for the union, inspect contribution cards, and report grievances to the district committee.
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The steward's duties as a representative of the Union on the job shall be to see that the members of the Union at his particular terminal or place of employment observe the agreement and at the same time that the rights and interests of such members of this agreement are protected.
No shopsteward shall be removed from the job of shopsteward unless he has charges preferred against him in writing and signed by the member or members making such charges.
If the shopsteward is unable to attend a shopsteward's meeting he must select a substitute to attend for him for that particular meeting.
A shopsteward's principal duty is to be the daily "eyes and ears" of the union and to report a contractor's violations of the collective bargaining agreement.
The shopsteward is required to submit weekly reports, called "shopsteward reports," to the union office, setting forth the hours worked by each of the union's members assigned to the jobsite.
Thus, the shopsteward is required to observe the number of hours worked at the jobsite by the union members in order to report the carpenter-hours accurately each week.
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