Funny thing?
Yep it is a funny thing.
I don't recall when doing my ATPL exams that there was a different pass mark for us women, I also don't recall from my IRT that there was a different set of standards I had to pass compared to my fellow male students.
What I do know is that due to a recent BA / Balpa case, I now need to include on my CV that despite being 26yrs old and female, I don't want kids. (And if I did, I wouldn't expect a commercial organisation to have to answer to my every wish).
I don't usually waste my breath on these types of threads, it just P*sses me off when people assume you are handed a job for reasons other than earning it. I tend to think my success in my current job (engineering based) is because I work hard at it.. why do people think flying is different?
I would like to think that I have the same licence as my JAA collegues (male or female), certainly when it arrived back from the CAA, it was contained in a nice blue wallet...pity, I should have asked for pink!
GQ (26, looking for a flying job and is most probably by now sterile)!