Originally Posted by
hans brinker
and after almost 2 decades of non stop female and minority hiring they have 3% more females than the average. Sorry but I have never seen a UAL class picture where more than 20% were female & minority combined. Yes, it was absolutely easier to get a job at UAL in those years as a female/minority than it was 20 years before. One big reason: in 1960 ,as a female you would not get hired as a pilot. If you are worried about getting a job be better than the other white guy, because he is still your main competition.
Hans Brinker,
so we’ve answered the original question, even when an airline commits to hiring more minorities and women, for decades, the overall percentages are still very low, Why? As other posters have said, there are a myriad of reasons and a decree from upper management imposing a feel good quota will probably not achieve the desired effect and inevitably force the hiring of inexperienced and under qualified applicants if the pool of said applicants is very shallow. It’s not that Women are being discriminated against, it’s just there aren’t enough of them in the career field to increase the percentages appreciably. It reminds me of some current politicians who want to tax billionaires in order to pay for feel good programs, It sounds good, but in reality, there aren’t enough billionaires to tax in order to pay for all these feel good schemes.