ptg raises an interesting question:-
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Will a 50% roster actually help her? She will still have to work full shifts when she is at work, so will still not be able to get the childcare outside normal working hours.
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Where exactly is child friendly employment going to stop?
1. Mum feels that it would be better if she were at home overnight, so that she would be there if one of the children wakes up with a nightmare, so can she not be rostered any night duties and they be shared out instead amongst the male employees or the other females who choose not to have a family?
2. Mum feels it would be better not to work weekends, it is easier to use kindergartens etc during the week and weekends are important for family bonding and meeting other family groups
3. Preferential rights for leave, it is important to be off during the school holidays or at Christmas which is after all a very child friendly time of the year. So mums should have first choice of leave
All these things are arguable and it is easy to see that some would say yes that they are reasonable. Others would argue that it is unfair on the other pilots to discriminate against them just to please motherhood. Then before you know it Jews will be demanding evey friday off alongside the Moslems, and all the junior FO's will become born again Christians as the only way of getting a Sunday off.
No, flying is not, and never has been, a family friendly job alongside many others such as nursing, firemen etc. who work unsociable hours.
We knew that when we joined, of our own free will.