Gawd. Now the FAAA is calling for pilot quotas, according to The Aus:
“The Flight Attendants’ Association of Australia has called for Australia’s major airlines to implement gender quotas for pilots, as “more women up the front would have a positive benefit for cabin crew” and help squash the “trolley dolly” stereotype amongst cabin crew.
“Having women (pilots) in authority diminishes gender stereotyping regarding the role of all women on board,” Teri O‘Toole, federal secretary of the FAAA told The Oz. “Female voices from the flight deck can only provide a positive flow on to the authority of cabin crew and recognition that cabin crew , with flight crew, hold responsibility for flight safety.”
The bloody nerve.
Ok, in that case, I’m going to ask the AFAP and AIPA to call for quotas on the sexuality of flight attendants: to have the ratio of straight vs gay flight attendants accurately reflect that of wider society. Having the correct proportion of straight to gay flight attendants will diminish the sexuality stereotyping of airline crews. Straight voices from the cabin can only provide a positive flow on to the authority of the aircraft’s crew and recognition that cabin crew, with flight crew, hold responsibility for flight safety.
(The last bit is bull-dust. Flight safety is entirely independent of whether the Captain is female or whether the CSM is gay. It is entirely dependent on each’s tech knowledge AND their ability to lead, inspire, communicate. But don’t let those facts get in the way of modern Aus’s stupid woke agendas).