Like many people, I’m all for the right person doing the right job.
Quotas however are demonstrably flawed.
It starts as 50:50 Male:Female.
It then becomes Male:Female
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You then have to define Other in a way that keeps everyone in that category satisfied. Gender fluid? Non binary? (Other options likely considerable).
But let’s say 50:50 Male:Female keeps the vast majority of quota hunters happy.
We have to move on and realise that, hang on, after we have our perfect 50:50… we actually don’t. Because diversity is itself…diverse.
Back to the drawing board when realizing that there is not a 50:50 split of sexualities. Or at least a split that covers all available sexuality “options” and assigns ratios to those that are acceptable to all.
Then religions.
Then skin.
Then hair.
Then left handed / right handed.
Of course, if 50:50 male:female is hypothetically desired, that itself can LIMIT female pilots in the sense that on a particular intake of 10 pilots there could be 6 suitable females, and one has to miss out because of a quota.
Plenty of other issues with quotas. I await the abusive DMs.