Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
Women have less interest in the job of pilot. Do some research about male versus female brains at birth and in the first two years of life. We are programmed by evolution to be attracted to different “things”.
That’s an interesting point as although females are attracted to different “things” are the “things” that make a good pilot now things women may have biological advantages in?
It’s not the 1930s anymore, the need for physical upper body strength to wrestle the non fly by wire controls of a rough as guts 30s contraption around the sky isn’t needed anymore. More emphasis in the modern multi crew flight deck is placed on “soft” skills like communication, conflict avoidance, team building, empathy, risk mitigation, consideration for alternate opinion, suppression of ego etc.
These are areas in which women may (not saying it’s a definite) have an advantage in. However it may not be adequately communicated to the public that the innate requirements of a pilot have changed, they may still think it’s primarily the domain of those who are to manually fight the controls of the plane like it’s the Southern Cross traversing the ocean in 1928.