Originally Posted by
Lookleft
In this day and age there are no barriers to females becoming airline pilots. What HR and PC CEO's don't understand is that there are not a lot of females who want to be pilots. If you want to know of an area of aviation that is attractive to females then have a listen to ATC. To paraphrase Bill Clinton "Its the lifestyle stoopid"
What a narrow minded thing to say.
Some barriers to consider - lack of representation, lack of female mentors, unconscious bias within the industry, sexual harassment in the workplace, increased scrutiny with higher expectations than their male peers, the "you only got the job because of your gender", the list goes on.
The 'lifestyle' argument is also nonsense. There are plenty of jobs with similar lifestyles that have better gender ratios.
Diversity is a good thing. We owe it to our female peers to make the industry as open and welcoming as possible.