If less women are airline pilots them maybe the cr@p lifestyle has more influence on their choices than anything else?
Exactly.
Ignoring the element of choice is what the system intends. Money does one little good when in the graveyard. Money was compensation for risk and loss (be it mining risk or being away from kin)
Supply of pilots was a function of demography; more supply than demand and down went terms and conditions.
Adversarial IR/HR models are all predicated on endless supply, which no longer holds.
Many have worked out the job offers little 'compensation' for the loss and perhaps one gender worked that out a lot earlier than the other!