Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
First principles, why does half of any profession need to be a particular gender? There is no reason.
Any person of either gender can graviatate to a role that they desire and are suited for.
That is already true. The fact that women choose not to rush into pilot jobs is not a problem to be fixed.
Tend to disagree. How can you gravitate to something that you are unaware of, have little access too, the minority that are there are belittled, treated differently, glass ceiling etc, because of your gender. We are a product of our environment. Because of that how can you consider something that is not in your sphere (therefore even consider suited for), and we are not talking now, inroads have been made, but 20+ years ago it was a very different story. By restricting the ability to utilise the whole work force we are restricting the success, profitability, professionalism of that work force. Argumentatively not an issue if you can fill all positions with what you have which is what happened years ago.
"The fact that women choose not to rush........" Why is that not a problem to be fixed? There are excellent female pilots out there from a very small base. Why would you not want more? Having done a few career expo's and asking the females about becoming a pilot the resounding response is no. Why, very simple it has not been proposed, thought of because "we are a product of our environment". This is also applicable to males. Not every single male has thought about being a pilot (or a multitude of other careers) because of their background.