It’s time companies stop amounting to pressure from the growing number of Social Justice Warriors we are seeing in society these days.
The route to the the right hand seat of an airline has nothing to do with your gender. Aptitude is genderless, EASA exams are genderless and flying is, you guessed it, genderless. There is simply no barrier for woman getting into the industry. In fact, right now you’re at a huge advantage if you are a female.
Airlines offering sponsored or subsidised training for females because there’s not as many in the industry is ridiculous, and not to mention, sexist. It’s not positive discrimination; it’s just discrimination. The fact of the matter is that there’s not as many woman interested in aviation. So why are we punishing the males?
As for the “gender pay gap.” Any economist worth their salt will tell you that it is a myth. It does not exist. It’s illegal to pay woman less, otherwise every company would only employ woman. The pay gap is taken from a comparison across all jobs in society and so does not represent a job for job “pay gap.” It’s about time these people got over themselves and started promoting real equality instead of superiority.