Originally Posted by
Sprite
No we are not going to get every weekend and Christmas off. There are other female dominated professions who work shift work and do not get this so it’s not that putting women off a career in aviation. It believe it is possible to make the job more family friendly for everyone if we keep making that a priority in negotiations.
This post in spades.
A lot of posters seem to be throwing their hands up in the air and claiming “piloting is too difficult a profession for most women to be able to raise a family in, that’s just the way it is”.
Why not push for more family friendly rostering, better access to child care for pilots, better support and integration for families?
This will benefit fathers as well. Everyone has families, even single male pilots without kids.
Of course we’ll never achieve a total 9-5 workplace, but maybe we can create working conditions a little better than they are now?