Mosspigs, that day in fklightdeck check in at Gatwick, there were three crews each with one female pilot - my crew hadn't yet checked in, but we had no women in our flightdeck. It just happened to be a bit of a happy coincidence as I was reading this thread at the time, but our actual female representation is less than 5%, I believe.
The proportion of applications to Virgin from females is also very small, and not significantly increasing, and I can see no sign of positive discrimination here. I don't believe we are unusual in this. The problem is not that women have a harder time (or an easier time) than men, it is simply that not enough women want to do this job.
Scroggs